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"The only reason we know the British people are paying £1 billion a month on benefits for foreign nationals is because of freedom of information requests. The state is still refusing to release information. They accuse you of "misinformation" while hiding information!"

Christopher Dummitt: Systemic discrimination is legal in Canada nationalpost.com/opinion/christ… via National Post

A British child’s bookshelf 65 years ago.

Rather than the merits of the research itself, it now matters more who is doing it — Read this month’s University Challenged column thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-20…

Examples from Moranto of the skewered thinking which informs some journals today. He always asks any authors to remove demographic positionality statements, which he thinks are pointless (I couldn’t agree more). #HeterodoxConference

An important point by Daniel Hannan Good example of benefit here: dailysceptic.org/2025/06/06/glo…

Whoever would have thought that increasing taxes on jobs - even if cack-handedly hidden from ‘pay packets’ as increases in employers’ NI - would lead to fewer jobs? (HT Bruce Goodwin 🇬🇧🍻🏏🏌🏽🎸)

Faculty ideology over time:

Yuan Yi Zhu: Canada's tasteless, attention-seeking, unproductive chief justice nationalpost.com/opinion/yuan-y… via National Post

Baroness Casey's report confirms it⚠️ These sickening crimes were deliberately covered up because those in authority were more concerned about so-called community relations than about protecting young girls The first thing Keir Starmer must do is apologise, for smearing those

The world is talking trade — are you part of the conversation? WTO members have shared the issues they want to explore at this year’s #WTOPublicForum. Now it’s your chance to shape the agenda. Submit your proposal by 22 June: bit.ly/4mcWkte

The Office for Students (OfS) has issued final regulatory advice on how universities and colleges must comply with the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. At its core is a principle the FSU pressed for during the OfS’s consultation on the draft guidance: that speech

4. Universities should not put political restrictions on research.

Our founder members Prof Ian Pace and Abhishek Saha have published an article in Times Higher Education today on the vital OfS guidance to universities on protecting free speech and academic freedom.

"Canada’s Digital Services Tax (DST) will almost certainly feature in the USMCA’s renegotiation next year," notes David Collins in The Daily Economy. cnaps.org/canadas-digita…

"All countries imposing DSTs would be wise to abandon them..." David Collins

Huge win for the Adam Smith Institute and David Collins, who called for this move in last year’s ‘World Traders’ paper. This will significantly bolster our free trade ambitions and unlock further reforms worldwide.

We had an amazing discussion today in Ottawa on Canada’s economic and geopolitical priorities under the CPTPP - thanks to Macdonald-Laurier Institute for hosting!

Straight white British men are now the most discriminated group in the UK, by a country mile. I see it in Parliament almost every day. Dedicated time for Pride Month. Ministerial portfolios for women. Endless islamophobia debates. World-class virtue signalling, at every turn.

Worth revisiting my blog from Sept recommending ditching the Digital Services Tax: The Trudeau government’s tax on American tech giants is a lose-lose for consumers and the Canadian economy: David Collins in the Hub | Macdonald-Laurier Institute macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-trudeau-go…