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The future of Western civilisation is being 'taken over by progressive ideology', Francis Foster tells GB News
Narrative Analysis: Name Calling
Author and co-host of Triggernometry Francis Foster speaks to GB News contributor Will Kingston on fatherlessness, gang culture and Britain's lost boys.Expressing his concern for the future of Western civilisation at the ARC Conference, Mr Foster told GB News: I am concerned about the future of Western civilisation, in part because the education systems of America, Australia, the United Kingdom have been so successfully taken over by a particular type of progressive ideology. And it changes the way that kids think about their history, changes the way that they think about particular social issues. And now it is so ingrained that, you know, it is just part of the water that these children, you know, bathe in as students.WATCH ABOVE. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter
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