News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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Trump's freeze on foreign aid has left Stonewall in the lurch, with US funding for its LGBTQ+ projects drying up, and up to half of its "shell-shocked" staff facing the chop.
Donald Trump has ordered that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave "immediately" and eventually laid off as the new President's war on woke goes nuclear.
'Common Sense' minister Esther McVey has declared war on civil service jobs dedicated to 'equality, diversity and inclusion', claiming that money is being wasted on "woke hobby horses".
"A woke and extremist culture has infiltrated the Army," the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity.
Local councils will be told to cut back on diversity training and expensive office away days if they want to put up council tax, Esther McVey the 'Common Sense Minister' has said.
Of all the people claiming to wage a war on wokery, Professor Eric Kaufmann has arguably gone the furthest – by setting up an academic faculty dedicated to the pursuit.
The NHS is massively expanding diversity and inclusion roles, despite concerns of resource diversion from patient care and healthcare reforms amid record waiting lists and doctor strikes.
Theresa May has said she is “woke and proud” as she called for a “sensitive approach” to issues surrounding gender. That's a former Conservative Prime Minister, folks.
Grandad’s Pride, a children’s book with depictions of men in leather bondage gear and a trans man with ‘top-surgery’ scars, has sparked outrage with parents after it was handed out to pupils at a pre-school in Hull.
So much for Rishi Sunak's 'war on woke'. Tory backbenchers are waking up to the fact that the Worker Protection Bill, which the Government is supporting, would massively extend the scope of the Equality Act.
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