News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Everything white is racist these days, from white paint to the White Cliffs of Dover. And now milk, it seems, with the Wellcome Museum labelling it a "highly politicised liquid". Steven Tucker wades into the nonsense.
The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines from the "leading provider of support for schools and trusts” insist.
The Church of England has committed to paying £1bn in slavery reparations. But the case for doing so is historical nonsense, say Robert Tombs and Lawrence Goldman. The Church never made any money from the slave trade.
History lecturers at the University of Liverpool have been told to teach that whiteness and heterosexuality are a problem in new guidance sent to staff.
Even the BBC's Monty Don complained that the surprise winner at this year's Chelsea Flower Show was a box-ticking exercise. Gardening has been colonised by wokesters who see racism everywhere, says Steven Tucker.
The National Trust has been branded "racist, ignorant, divisive and patronising" amid a backlash for replacing the term 'ethnic minority' with 'global majority' as it launched an 'inclusive' walking project.
How have we got into a scenario where merely holding a dissenting opinion can result in the loss of your job and career? HR expert C.J. Strachan looks at the chaos EDI is causing among well-meaning employers.
Race activists have been pushing the new term Global Majority to replace ethnic minority and BAME. But it's just anti-white propaganda, says Steven Tucker, divisively ganging up non-whites to put whitey in his place.
DEI initiatives and woke ideology are not making workplaces friendlier but hostile to anyone not fully on board with them, writes Raquel Rosario Sánchez. "The pitfalls are not theoretical to me – I’ve lived them."
Dr. Tony Sewell continues to bust the myths of 'racist Britain' in his important new book Black Success, as he laments how black Britons are held back by a race relations industry that would make them permanent victims.
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