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on November 16, 2025
<img src="https://media.istockphoto.com/id/2177607087/de/vektor/wissens-icon-set-mentoring-symbol-linearer-stil.jpg?b=1&s=170x170&k=20&c=DDyBhT_YRfjQVHmvmXGn-yeQWR-z7mSl5jkswfBkb_o="; style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />It's not just that the few remaining veterans of the Second World War are very much in the twilight of their years, or that the woman who led that generation through their darkest hours with her parents - Queen Elizabeth II - is gone. But for all the jollity, math fun 6th grade all the smiles and uplifting stories, I could not escape a nagging sense of sadness. A bitter feeling that it was all just a veneer, a performance rather than a true expression of solidarity. The university said on Tuesday thirty pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied the building late on Monday were arrested, and charges of trespassing, property destruction and disorderly conduct would be referred to prosecutors.
There are five members of the NSW Right in federal cabinet: Tony Burke (home affairs), Chris Bowen (climate change and energy), Jason Clare (education), Ed Husic (industry and science), and Michelle Rowland (communications). There is no ‘shoulders back, heads up' nowadays. No ‘keep calm and carry on'. Just ‘me, me, me' - as exemplified by research conducted earlier this year by The Times, in which just 11 per cent of Gen Z (young adults aged 18-27) said they would be willing to fight for their country.
The Vernon Hills, Illinois-based company provides IT solutions such as cloud services, cybersecurity, and distributes hardware to enterprise, government, and healthcare clients across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. May 7 (Reuters) - IT hardware and services distributor CDW topped Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday, buoyed by steady demand from healthcare, education and other industries.
How many of them will play their part in ridding the world of a true evil? How many will stand up for what's good and right, regardless of their own sacrifice? How many will still rise to their feet, two years shy of their 100th birthdays, to salute the marching band? They have little or no sense of national identity, ‘nation' being a dirty word. They are far more interested in identity politics, such as trans issues and questions of race and so-called white privilege.
The only thing they really seem to care about is how they come across on social media - a kind of ‘does my virtue look big in this?' mentality. How they ever managed to go on to live anything even resembling a normal existence is a mystery to me. But somehow, they did. They knew the value of life, you see, understood how precious and precarious it is. They had survived: they owed it to those who did not to keep going. The Trump administration has threatened universities with federal funding cuts over pro-Palestinian campus protests against Israel's military assault on Gaza following Palestinian Hamas militants' October 2023 attack in Israel.
Yesterday, it finally admitted a ‘lapse' in what it described as ‘our usual high editorial standards' for failing to challenge the prince on his claim that he is the victim of a ‘good old-fashioned establishment stitch up'.