News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
Woke HR has created a workplace that is failing workers and their employers because the creative mavericks are isolated, sidelined and silenced, while those who are promoted are the appeasers, the cowards and the mediocre.
"I'm an HR professional and this is the only way to resist the growing tyranny of DEI and corporate wokery." C.J. Strachan shares his insights from 30 years fighting the nonsense on the inside – while keeping his job.
A diversity row has erupted at the U.K.'s national AI institute after 180 staff signed a letter questioning the "inclusivity" of the appointment of four male senior scientists.
The NHS seems to be in permanent crisis. Yet the number of doctors is up 37% and non-medical support staff up 45% in 10 years. How does a health service do so little with so much?
Ken Charman has recently retired as a CEO, but like many over-50s, he has no intention of going back into a corporate world that is beholden to DEI dogma and would cancel you if you ever let on what you really think.
Elon Musk has posted on X the extraordinary list of criteria laid out in Disney's DEI policy that must be applied when making an appointment. Is he plotting a takeover of the company afflicted by the woke mind virus?
A senior BBC employee branded Jewish people “Nazis” and white people "barbaric bloodthirsty rapacious murderous genocidal thieving parasitical deviant breed". She seems to have a good grasp of DEI ideology.
BBC staff are being told not to hire candidates who are "dismissive" of diversity and inclusion under guidelines critics say are a mechanism to maintain groupthink and promote controversial ideas.
Obsessed by modish woke ideology, the National Trust has devised a competition in Sir Isaac Newton’s name which Sir Isaac Newton himself would not be eligible to enter.
Is DEI in its death throes? Nick Dixon considers recent changes in PwC's diversity policies as further evidence of a broader pushback against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion gobbledegook.
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