A 3.9% increase takes a 40-hour minimum wage job to £27,456/year. Median salary for graduates 15 months after graduating is £28,500. From tax system to welfare and minimum wage, Britain is an economy that undermines incentives for work and the development of human capital.

In 1978, a single book changed how much of the Western academy thinks about the world – and helped build the foundations of what would become “woke”. In Orientalism Edward Said argued that European scholarship, literature and art about the Middle East and Asia were never innocent attempts to understand other civilisations. They were, he claimed, sophisticated tools of power - a way for the West to invent an image of the “Orient” as exotic, backward, sensual, and inferior in order to justify colonial domination. This idea became the founding text of post-colonial studies. It quickly spread across literature departments, history, anthropology, and cultural studies. The central claim was powerful and seductive: Western knowledge itself is tainted by imperialism. Every classic text, every historical account, every artistic depiction must be read primarily as an exercise in domination and “othering.” What followed was a profound shift in the humanities. The pursuit of truth and beauty was increasingly replaced by the search for hidden power structures. European civilisation was reframed less as a source of extraordinary achievement and more as the root of global oppression. Non-Western societies were often shielded from the same critical scrutiny. Said’s framework helped turn entire fields into vehicles for political advocacy rather than disinterested scholarship. It taught generations of students to see the world through the lens of coloniser and colonised, oppressor and oppressed. The West’s sins became its defining feature, while its gifts - science, reason, individual rights and prosperity - were downplayed or treated with suspicion. Post-colonial theory became one of the most influential intellectual movements of the late 20th century. Its legacy continues to shape how many academics, journalists and activists view civilisation itself.

Israel is actually really bad at colonization.

Church leaders need to be teaching Genesis 1–11 as literal history, equipping people to have a truly Christian worldview, and providing answers (teaching apologetics) to defend against the attacks on the vital history God has given to us.

Dinosaurs were on the Ark.

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Ursula von der Leyen says RUSSIA IS USING MASS MIGRATION as a weapon against EUROPE The EU chief accuses Russia of deliberately pushing migrants toward European borders to overwhelm authorities, spread fear and divide the continent. She now wants new emergency powers to deal with these situations. Brussels has SPENT YEARS defending migration and asylum as part of Europe's values. Now it's warning that hostile governments can exploit those same systems to destabilize Europe. Completely ridiculous. And pretty revealing who is actually behind it all... Writer: Oliver

Socialism rewards power. When resource allocation, production, and distribution are centralised, power inevitably concentrate in the hand of those who control the central bureaucracy. Capitalism rewards value creation. To prosper, you must produce something that others are willing to forego alternative consumption to obtain.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose has spent decades investigating one of science’s biggest mysteries: whether consciousness can be fully explained by the physical processes occurring inside the brain. Penrose, who received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on black holes, has proposed that consciousness may involve quantum processes that conventional neuroscience does not yet fully explain. Together with anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, he developed the Orch-OR theory, which suggests that quantum events inside microscopic structures called microtubules could contribute to conscious experience. Microtubules are tiny structures found inside cells, including neurons. They help maintain cell shape and perform essential functions. However, their proposed role in generating consciousness remains controversial. Penrose has also explored whether the universe might undergo repeated cosmic cycles, with one universe eventually giving rise to another. This idea is known as conformal cyclic cosmology. Neither theory establishes that human souls are eternal or that personal consciousness survives death. The claim that matter cannot be destroyed is also an oversimplification of physics. Einstein’s equation E = mc² shows that mass and energy are related and can be converted into different forms. Conservation of energy does not mean that memories, personality, or individual awareness must continue after biological death. There is currently no verified scientific evidence demonstrating the existence of an immortal soul. The nature of consciousness remains an open scientific and philosophical question. Penrose’s contributions to physics are well established, but the statement attributed to him about eternal souls should not be treated as a confirmed scientific discovery or a verified quotation. Source: Nobel Prize (2020), Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, Physics of Life Reviews (2014), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.