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16 June 2025
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16 June 2025
by Toby Young
The Bank of England has scrapped planned DEI rules that would have forced 42,000 UK businesses to report diversity data collected on their employees amid a global backlash over the 'progressive' corporate agenda.
Special Episode of the Sceptic: South African businessman Rob Hersov on his country’s terrifying descent into socialism, kleptocracy and anti-white racism.
The Javaad Alipoor Company is a theatre company with a woke "nine-point manifesto that drives everything we do". Inevitably, the Arts Council is stuffing it with taxpayers' cash. Why do we fund this crap?
Once proud to be a "Diversity Champion", spy agency GCHQ has ditched Stonewall in a fresh setback for the LGBT charity, as Trump's anti-DEI push sparks a funding crisis.
The British arm of McDonald's is clinging to its corporate DEI policies, breaking with its US parent in apparent defiance of Donald Trump. It remains committed to a senior leadership diversity quota of 40% by 2030.
"Censorship!" cry the censorious Left as the Trump administration clamps down on wokery in publicly-funded research. Dr Roger Watson fact-checks the latest dubious claims from the DEI industry about book and word "bans".
Britain's fire service is too male, too white and stuck in the Dark Ages of bigotry, according to a report for the National Fire Chiefs Council.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar charity – has scrapped its diversity team and cancelled funding for projects promoting inclusivity as the Great Unwokening gains pace.
As US companies roll back diversity programmes they were once eager to promote, many British HR chiefs are determined not to follow corporate America’s lead, triggering a battle with senior bosses.
As major corporations see the light over DEI and Trump flushes it out of the US Government, true to form, academia is manning the woke barricades in its determination to fight back, says Dr Roger Watson.
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