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The current instalment of the Tory culture wars has taken a sinister turn, writes teacher ROBERT POOLE

The Reverend Dr Bernard Randall delivered a sermon defending the right of pupils at independent Trent College near Nottingham to question the school's introduction of new LGBT policies.

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by Bethany Rielly CAMPAIGNERS have been left “gobsmacked” by Tory peer Norman Tebbit’s admission that he received regular briefs from special branch on the activities of trade unionists while he was a minister. The former employment secretary, a senior figure in Margaret Thatcher’s government, said the information was so detailed that he knew where trade unionists had gone on holiday.  He was speaking during a parliamentary Zoom meeting on Tuesday, hosted by Labour MP Richard Burgon to discuss the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry.  The probe, which is investigating abuses by...

IRA Brighton bomber 'scouted Labour conference seven years earlier' Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: John Downing/Getty Images The IRA bomber who almost wiped out Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative cabinet in 1984 secretly scouted a Labour party conference in Brighton seven years earlier, he has disclosed. Patrick Magee surveilled the Brighton conference centre in October 1977 when the IRA sought to hit back at the then Labour government for its policies in Northern Ireland. Magee, who was convicted of murdering five people in th...