News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Rumours are swirling that Harriet Harman, who is retiring as an MP, is set to be appointed as the new Chair of the EHRC, replacing the sensible Baroness Falkner – and heralding a boomtime of trans ideology.
A London theatre has said it is seeking a Chief Executive who is disabled, gay, "criminal class" or "global majority" in a job advert – sparking a backlash.
Google's swift sacking of 50 employees protesting over Gaza is the beginning of the end of the employee activist, says C.J. Strachan. Across the West companies are realising a politicised workplace is a dysfunctional one.
Given the massive amount of woke bureaucracy imposed on NHS organisations by the Department of Health, it's hardly surprising that the hiring of DEI staff has been one of the fastest growing areas in our failing NHS.
A Christian man had his social worker job withdrawn because it was feared his beliefs would lead to the suicides of LGBT patients, an employment tribunal has heard.
The Government's consultation on "non-statutory guidance" for schools on gender identity shows how weak it is, says Mark Ellse. The problem is it failed to amend the Equality Act, which protects "gender reassignment".
A controversial West End theatre production about race, identity and sexuality in 21st century America will put on two nights for black-only audiences to watch the play "free from the white gaze".
Arbitrarily classifying every woman pushing 50 as being latently disabled due to the menopause seems perilously close to legislating that females as a whole are inherently unfit for employment, says Steven Tucker.
New Labour's Equality Act embedded identity politics into our public institutions and paved the way for the ideological capture of our schools, civil service and NHS, says Tory MP Miriam Cates. It needs an overhaul.
The Government's about-to-be-issued trans guidance for schools is a typical cowardly fudge that will create more problems than it solves. Clare Page dissects it for the Daily Sceptic.
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