Tag: Decolonisation

Using Latin names for plants may be racist, the University of Michigan has warned, in guidance to prevent the influence of colonial "power structures" on visitors.

Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to China-ally Mauritius after 200 years of British rule.

A teacher has written a hair-raising account In the Daily Sceptic of how schoolchildren are being spoon fed hard Left ideology under the guise of teaching them to be more 'inclusive'.

In a scathing piece for the Telegraph, Prof Nigel Biggar admonishes Oxford academics and staff backing pro-Palestinian student protesters, suggesting they need a sharp lesson on history, ethics and law.

The effort to ‘decolonise’ science is misguided, says Dr John Staddon, a former professor at Duke. The reason women and people of colour are under-represented in science has nothing to do with bias or discrimination.

Nigeria has failed to look after the Benin bronzes it has and shouldn't be given any more, says leading Swiss ethnologist Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin as she opposes the restitution movement. They belong to humanity.

The peoples of the old Empire have colonised England in reverse, declares a poem on the London Underground. Is it really helpful to rub the natives' noses in it like this, asks Steven Tucker.

People who chant for Hamas, punch TERFs, topple statues, burn churches, defund the police and run unconscious bias training all follow the same poisonous ideology of critical social justice theory, says Dr William McNally.

Is it really possible to be "colonised" by Noel Edmonds? It is according to his new neighbours in New Zealand, where the TV presenter's un-PC humour is upsetting the local pearl-clutchers.

Censorship is growing as librarians and curators increasingly take it upon themselves to try to protect readers from the supposed threat posed by "problematic" books, says Frank Furedi.