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DDU’s Open Letter to the FA on Taking the Knee

Dear Mark Bullingham, In your recent message to England supporters, you said:  ‘Major tournaments don’t come around often, and when they do it’s an opportunity to unite friends, family and the country.’ We couldn’t agree more! However, the decision to encourage players to ‘take the knee’ and then to denigrate fans who oppose the gesture, […]

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Letter from the Prime Minister

DDU are delighted to have received a letter from the Prime Minister acknowledging our work in relation to the CRED Report. As ever, it’s a collective effort so thanks to all involved in producing the open letter, the response and the public meeting!

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Debate & Disinformation Regarding the CRED Report

In his careful and thorough review of the hasty, partisan and unreasoned criticisms of the Commission for Racial and Ethnic Disparities Report, Damian Counsell, writing in Quillette, concludes: The commissioners’ hope that public clarification might encourage their critics to be more careful and fair-minded is almost certainly forlorn. For a particular kind of anti-racist, there […]

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Teachers’ over protection can hinder pupils’ thinking

In this issue of Edpsy.org.uk, Educational Psychologists Claire McGuiggan and Peter D’Lima make the case for a stronger commitment to freedom of speech in schools. Their words are especially relevant at a time when some schools are promoting over -zealous policing of books and language: Create a culture within a school or organisation that demonstrates […]

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DDU Weekly Newsletter

Read our weekly newsletter below: https://mailchi.mp/4890e52250da/thank-you-7999361?e=4259928bc3https://mailchi.mp/4890e52250da/thank-you-7999361?e=4259928bc3 NB – Correction, reference should be to Macolm, and not Michael, Gladwell.

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Critical Race Theory & the ‘Hyper-White Jew’

Pamela Paresky’s thoughtful and thought-provoking essay in Sapir Journal considers how, in America, the concept of ‘whiteness’ in critical race theory is implicated in anti-semitism: American Jews have generally looked upon Jewish success in the United States as evidence of the country’s fundamental (if far from fully realized) commitment to the principles of tolerance, fair […]