Grace🕊️🌸🌿

🚨The Bradford headteacher who blew the whistle on multiculturalism in the 1980’s: Ray Honeyford was the headmaster of Drummond Middle School in Bradford in the 1980’s. Ray was born into a very poor family with a father who was wounded in WW1 and often unable to work. He had 10 siblings, six of whom died in childhood. Ray went to work at 15 to support his family whilst taking evening classes to qualify as a teacher. In the mid 1980’s Drummond Middle School was 90% non-white and 95% Asian (mostly Pakistani). 1984 (an apt year!) Ray wrote an article on multiculturalism in Roger Scruton’s Salisbury Review. He noted that many children were actively encouraged to speak Urdu rather than English. He noted young girls were being forced into marriage and many children were arriving at school already exhausted after hours spent at the madrasah. And he said that parents were bringing the “politics of the subcontinent” with them and that many of the Pakistani parents viewed white Brits as the kafir who were not to be mixed with. He warned that it was resulting in “Asian ghetto’s” across Bradford and that political correctness was holding back integration and the educational prospects of ethnic minority children. He wrote the article not out of hatred, but out of a concern the children under his care were not getting a great British education. Muslim “community leaders” would pack meetings in the school and demand his resignation as did the local Pakistani Mayor of Bradford. He was suspended until his suspension was overturned in the High Court. But the parents started protesting and the children started boycotting the school. Ray even had to be given police protection. He eventually accepted a payout from the council and was forced into early retirement. He never worked as a teacher again. When Ray died in 2012 Roger Scruton wrote an obituary which said: “Readers will be grateful for the life of this exemplary, heroic and profoundly gentle man, who was prepared to pay the price of truth at a time of lies”.

Prince William, Princess Kate, and their 3 children arrive for Easter Sunday church service ✝️

This is the Ganges river in India. Good Lord. 🤢🤢🤢

Feijoa coconut cake 75g soft butter
3/4c caster sugar
2 eggs, separated
1c dessicated coconut
1c plain flour
2 t baking powder
pinch salt
1/4c milk
1/4c sour cream
3/4c  feijoa flesh, scooped out and roughly chopped in the measuring cup so you don’t lose too much liquid Preheat oven to 150C (300F). Heavily grease a spring-form cake tin, then sprinkle with a little coconut and flour to prevent sticking. Beat butter and sugar until pale, then beat in yolks one at a time, for a minute after each addition. Add the coconut, and sift in the flour, baking powder and salt. Fold through and when it’s about half done fold the milk and sour cream through as well. 
Set aside. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until they form soft peaks. Fold through the yolky batter until mostly incorporated (a whisper of egg white is ok) then fold through the feijoa. Pop in the oven and bake 50-60mins, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out moist but not crummy. Cool until warm to the touch, then turn out (you may have to scrape the edges to dislodge it). Icing: Coconut drizzle 200ml coconut cream (shake the can first!)
1T caster sugar On medium low heat, bring the mixture to a gentle simmer, until the sugar dissolves, and stir with a whisk constantly to break up any lumps in the cream. 
Drizzle over the cake while warm if possible, and store covered in the fridge for later use..

I think they nailed it

Well this was an awkward meeting. We fast forwarded through some of the awkward silences for you. And the panic "adjournment"... At a recent Otago Regional Council meeting, Councillor Robbie Byars put forward a simple amendment to remove unelected iwi representatives from the new governance structure for the ICM Board and keep decision-making with those voters can actually hold accountable. It was voted down 8–3. That’s how co-governance keeps creeping in. Not through public mandate, but through decisions like this in council chambers. Credit to Robbie for forcing the issue and making councillors show their hand. Democracy only works when the public can see who is standing up for it… and who isn’t.

Who was most handsome back then! Me: Mel Gibson