News Round-Up
27 October 2024
by Will Jones
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Doug Stokes, a professor of international relations at Exeter, has summarised the thesis of his new book, Against Decolonisation, for the Daily Sceptic: it's based on nonsense and is sapping our national self-confidence.
In the latest twist to the farce of the Benin bronzes, a Nigerian Prince has proposed that the restituted artefacts be sold off and the proceeds shared with the "descendants of the slaves".
Durham University is encouraging academics to 'decolonise' degree courses by providing them with a 'woke toolkit' aimed at removing non-inclusive content from lessons.
The woke obsession with 'anti-racism' and 'facing up to' past involvement in slavery is really all about advancing a thinly-veiled revolutionary, anti-British agenda, says Cambridge historian Prof. Robert Tombs.
Andrew Neil has taken aim at Oxfam's absurd new 'Inclusive Language Guide', which he says is another sign of "a sinister cultural sea change".
Year Zero is fast approaching at Aberdeen University as it sets out plans to "embed a bold, progressive and sustained programme of antiracist curricular reform", giving all courses three years to "decolonise".
Nigel Biggar's book, which concludes the British Empire was not all bad, appears to have been cancelled by Bloomsbury due to “public feeling”. Is this another example of the woke takeover of publishing?
Woke is finally catching up with the sciences as mathematicians in British universities are told to "decolonise" the curriculum by downgrading the status of objective rational knowledge – quite literally insane.
The New York Times will use any excuse to bash Britain and the death of the Queen is no exception. The paper’s view of the U.K. is so jaundiced – racist, crippled by Brexit, a diet of boiled mutton – it’s almost comic.
A top British dance school has dropped ballet from its auditions after branding it an "elitist art form" built around "white European ideas and body shapes" and "gender-divided roles".
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