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Throwing a teacher under the free speech bus

Throwing a teacher under the free speech bus

Some are falling over themselves to surrender to intimidation, while the rest feebly flap their hands or look the other way

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Melanie Phillips
Mar 30, 2021
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The Turkish Siege of Vienna, 1683; August Querfurt, 1750

What’s been happening in a northern English town should chill the blood of everyone who understands the urgent need to hold the line against religiously inspired intimidation and violence. For that line is once again being frighteningly broken.

A religious education teacher at Batley Grammar School …

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