Image Credit: Erik Mclean / Unsplash The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Custom Foods of America in Knoxville will receive a $1.5 million incentive while NewBasis in Lebanon will get $900,000 from Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development as more than $10 million in incentives were approved unanimously without board discussion at Thursday’s […]
Image Credit: Office of the Tennessee Comptroller The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee reported an 89.8% graduation rate and an 8.6% dropout rate in a new report with updated numbers from the 2021-22 school year from the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office. The Comptroller’s Office of Research and Education Accountability is required to produce the […]
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will […]
Antisemitism is being normalized. And there is no question in my mind that it is highly correlated with the spread of DEI/anticolonialism/grievance culture. The latest example, of which there are too many to count, is this high school basketball game having to be canceled due to physical aggression and the shouting of pro-Hamas and antisemitic […]
One common criticism of realism is that it is merely mimicking what can now be done as well or better with a camera. This is simply not the case. With few exceptions, photographs only show the surface, not the personhood of the subject. “The Resurrection of Realism” by Igor Babailov During the time that I […]
IN 2010, as a newly elected MP, nothing prepared me for a constituency surgery appointment with Michael and Susan Rudkin, a couple who gave me their account of how they had been treated by the Post Office. It was not until the public inquiry into one of the country’s worst miscarriages of justice began a year ago […]
THREE nights ago the evolutionary biologist Dr Bret Weinstein sat for an interview with Tucker Carlson. It’s well worth your time to watch it. Weinstein will be a familiar name to many in the Covid dissident community but he’s not here to go over the usual territory of the origins of covid or ivermectin (which he was […]
IN the spring of 2023 it was widely predicted that the Ukrainian armed forces, equipped with advanced Western technology, would push back the Russians, and that this would initiate a coup in Moscow to unseat Vladimir Putin. The bizarre episode involving the Wagner Group fuelled this belief. But where are we now? Putin is secure in his […]
AS THE waters recede, pretty pictures of Tewkesbury Abbey surrounded by floodwaters have been replaced by riverside towns under water. The usual suspects are blathering about climate change or rewilding. As is too often the case, people are fitting observations to their pet theories rather than developing theories from tested facts. The medieval masons who build […]
TIMES have changed. In 2020 and 2021, our government was imploring us not to kill granny . . . in 2024 it is possible that doing exactly that could constitute government policy. Last month, St Esther Rantzen was wheeled out to plant another idea in the public consciousness. She told us that she’d signed up for […]
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