No Child Deserves This

Little Daniel Pelka weighed just 1st 9lbs when he died in March last year in Coventry in the UK. During his final months, his mother and her evil lover starved him, forced him to perform punishment exercises, locked him in a tiny room, poisoned him with salt and held him under cold water until he lost consciousness. As the authorities in Coventry investigate whether more could have been done to save Daniel, it has emerged that teachers Coventry’s Little Heath Primary, were offered counselling. At school, the starving boy scavenged in bins, scoffed birthday cake and filled his pockets with fruit from his class’ communal bowl but teachers believed his mother’s lie that he had an eating disorder. Why did social workers, police and teachers missed so many opportunities to save him? Peter Hitchen's article in the Mail tells us The UK Government’s pretence of being resolute and decisive on immigration is a lie. He says it is almost as bad as New Labour’s secret decision to transform the country with migrants. He asks whether they really think that hiring a couple of publicity vans will fool anybody? He asks readers to be angry and vengeful, and to make that revenge hurt, to vote UKIP as often as you can, to destroy the wretched ‘Conservative’ Party which so insults your intelligence. The latest country report for Spain from the International Monetary Fund extends the time to escape recession to 2018. They say no new employment will be created for another three years, because the GDP growth will take until 2018 to reach 1.2%. A growing number of people are ignorant about the First World War and know little more about it than what ‘Baldrick’ said in the TV comedy Blackadder, a new report claims. The report claims one in ten think Hitler was the leader of Germany when the war started and nearly one in 12 young adults thinks Britain and Germany were allies, not enemies. A similar number think Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister at the time, according to the report published on the eve of tomorrow’s 99th anniversary of the start of the Great War. Have teaching standards really dropped so low?