News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Universities are in the midst of a financial crisis, with a dramatic drop in demand leading to the closure of arts and humanities degrees across England.
How did corporate sponsors like Tesco feel when David Tennant said he wished Kemi Badenoch didn't exist, asks C.J. Strachan. The corporate world is fast waking up to how divisive and damaging woke posturing can be.
More bosses are pulling the handbrake on costly diversity initiatives after realising they have allowed toxic identity politics to enter their workplace and wasted millions of pounds on pointless schemes.
The state-subsidised electric car market has crashed in China and the country is trying to dump the vehicles on the West, but the same is happening here as well. For manufacturers it's going to be a blood bath.
Happy International HR day! On this most, er, sanctimonious of occasions, HR professional Steve Chilcott takes a look at what has gone so wrong in everyone's least favourite ideologically-driven department.
Jerry Seinfeld has blamed the "extreme Left" and "PC c*nts" for killing comedy on television, claiming networks were too worried "about offending other people".
As though LinkedIn wasn't woke enough, the social media site has added a 'Pronoun Button' that will drive normal people away and hasten its descent into Facebook-like irrelevance, says C. J. Strachan.
It's not only large corporations with hyperactive HR departments that are succumbing to efficiency-sapping wokery, says C.J. Strachan. Small and medium-sized enterprises are being swallowed up by DEI as well.
"People go to watch a movie to be entertained. They don't go to get a message." Billionaire Disney investor Nelson Peltz has hit out at the woke media giant after a string of flops.
Planet Fitness's valuation has plummeted $400 million in five days after the company banned a member who shared a photo of a trans woman (i.e., a man) using a female locker room.
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