How to push back against DEI policies
Graeme Kemp reviews The Counterweight Handbook by Helen Pluckrose.
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Response to Bar Standards Board proposal to amend Core Duty 8
Recently, the Barrister Standards Board (BSB) published proposals to change one of its core duties pertaining to equality. The proposed change to Core Duty 8 is to replace a duty to not discriminate unlawfully (a negative duty) to ‘You must act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion.’ We asked a barrister to comment on the proposal and its implications.
From democracy to identity: the role of public policy in fostering the preconditions for violent social disorder
IntroductionOne month after the elections – with the lowest share of the population voting since universal suffrage – Britain saw riots, a minority of which were racist in their immediate targets. Few seem to have given much thought as to whether there might be any connection. Here, DDU director Alka Sehgal Cuthbert argues that the riots […]
‘Diversity & Anti-Racism’ and the threat to education in schools
On 24 July 2024, DDU sent an open letter to The Key – signed by a combination of scholars, teachers and parents – detailing our concerns about their Anti-Racism Curriculum Review which, knowingly or not, embeds significant precepts from critical race theory. In our view, these precepts are detrimental to educational goals and lack popular consent.
Can buildings be racist? No!
On GB News, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert ridicules the Welsh government’s anti-racist training and questions their educational priorities.
The State We’re In!
On Friday 28 June, DDU director Alka Sehgal Cuthbert was joined by four DDU Advisory Council members to discuss what might happen with the UK General Election 2024 – in particular, what a Labour government would be like.
An incident at a state secondary school in Wakefield, Yorkshire: a cautionary tale
When a 14-year-old boy scuffed a copy of the Koran at Kettlethorpe School in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, all hell broke loose. In an extended essay, one writer examines what happened and the worrying reaction to it.
DDU Lesson 6 – What can we learn from Frederick Douglass?
Frederick Douglass is the renowned ‘prophet of freedom’: the most important African American of the 19th century, who escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist, the greatest orator of his day and a leading writer of the era.
A secondary school teacher’s experience of anti-racism
The author is a secondary teacher of many years who wishes to remain anonymous. The summer term of 2020, still in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was spent doing online learning as schools were still closed. We had got into a fairly good routine, albeit with online lessons. It is a school in the […]
Book reviews: Minority Reports
Professor Eric Kaufman reviews a group of recent books by Rakib Ehsan, Sunder Katwala, Remi Adekoya and Tomiwa Owolade.
