News this week of a 12-year-old girl being sent home for wearing a Union Jack dress to her Warwickshire school’s ‘culture day’ – for fear it may offend someone – has understandably got people’s blood boiling.
Couple this with various Labour ideologues plotting to prosecute our armed forces veterans, years after they’ve retired, for doing their jobs in the toughest of circumstances and you’ve got a recipe for righteous anger.
And now we learn the government also wants to introduce blasphemy laws to police what people can and cannot say about the ideology of Islam – another source of frustration at what many see as the fabric of our democracy being eroded.
Meaningful conversation is shut down
Any meaningful conversation on these three topics, and topics like them, is immediately toxified and shut down by people on the political left.
They silence anyone who questions or challenges their view with lazy off-the-shelf cancel words, such as “racist,” “sexist,” “Islamophobic,” “homophobic” etc.
The result is: debate is stifled, freedom of expression is effectively erased and vast swathes of perfectly reasonable people feel a creeping sense of fury – the kind of fury that Starmer & Co dismiss, lazily and wrongly, as hard-right.
British people hate being told what to think
We Brits hate being told what we can and can’t say. We hate being told what we can and can’t think. We hate being labelled and categorised. And we hate unfairness, perceived or otherwise.
Which is why the Military Musical Spectacular 2025 at Horse Guards Parade in London this week was so special.
The perfect antidote
The brass band, the pageantry, the unapologetic patriotism, the personal discipline, the Christian bedrock, the zest for life, the sadness and pride in remembering the fallen, the gratitude to those who serve.
It was the perfect antidote to the rancid public discourse which is weakening so many aspects of our society. Thank you to the Army Benevolent Fund for inviting West Midlands News to this great event.
Thankfully the staff of Bilton school in Warwickshire were nowhere to be seen – so the Union Jack flags flew proud and true.
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