Quaker Political Interference Has Got Out of Control
12 April 2025
News Round-Up
12 April 2025
by Will Jones
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 recently as two years ago, fund managers were waxing lyrical about ESG investing. But the market has spoken and green stocks are not performing well, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
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.
With the Hay Book Festival boycott of Baillie Gifford, the EDI revolution is eating its own, says C.J. Strachan. The fund manager sponsor is as woke as they come but that didn't spare it – and companies are taking note.
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.
More and more employers are waking up to the damage being done by their woke activist HR departments. C. J. Strachan draws on insights from management theory to explain how to dispel the groupthink.
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.
Were you sacked for wrongthink? As research suggests hundreds of thousands may have suffered this fate, C.J. Strachan wants to hear your story so the scandal is not forgotten.
Corporate totalitarianism represents a new ideological development in the history of humanity, says Dr Rowena Slope. Global elites driving an authoritarian 'progressive' agenda that expands their own power and wealth.
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