News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
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.
Britain is the best country in the world to be black in, Kemi Badenoch told the Tory party conference on Monday, as she blasted Labour over its divisive stance on race and trans issues.
An academic who has criticised the teaching of “white privilege” in schools has been no-platformed from an education conference over claims she would make other speakers feel “unsafe”.
Critical race theory advocate Ibram X. Kendi has laid off nearly half of the staff at his Centre for Antiracist Research at Boston University amidst controversy surrounding the founder’s antiracist books.
The Free Speech Union has shared exclusive case studies with GB News showing that equity, diversity and inclusion policies are being invoked to punish employees for exercising their right to lawful free speech.
The Free Speech Union has just published a briefing on B Corps, the woke movement growing exponentially in Britain’s corporate sector that's having a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the workplace.
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