News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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by Sallust
Police officers have been advised to avoid terms like "black sheep" and "blacklisted", and study concepts like "white fragility" and "anti-racism" in a diversity guide branded "utterly mad" by critics.
Queen Mary University of London has hit a new low in its introduction of 'Inhuman Geography', where snow-capped mountains and dark underground mines are treated as evidence of 'white racism', says Steven Tucker.
Degree courses focused on the "undertakings of white people" have made universities racist, according to a review by a Russell Group university that has pledged to make reparations in response.
Is Sir Isaac Newton for the scrap heap? School science lessons could be made less "Western" with "no more heroes" in Labour's "woke" overhaul of the school curriculum.
Woke gobbledegook is losing Kamala Harris the election, Republicans believe, as they launch final push ads attacking the Vice-President for her record on trans issues.
Where did woke come from? Eric Kaufmann says it's not from Marxism but from something more visceral for the Left: the sacralisation of 'disadvantaged' minority groups and an overactive sense of guilt.
A concerned teacher has done a deep dive into a pro-refugee charity that has embedded itself in 400 British schools and appears to be in clear breach of the rules prohibiting the promotion of partisan political views.
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.
A new "racial justice unit" is being established by the Church of England to combat racism, including a £36,000-a-year position for a "deconstructing whiteness" officer.
You probably haven't heard of Sean Corby, but he has just won a huge victory for free speech – thanks to him opposition to Critical Race Theory has been recognised by a court as a 'protected belief' for the first time.
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