DDU open letter in response to ‘Black Out’ performances at Noel Coward Theatre
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert writes to theatre owners Delfont Mackintosh to denounce the idea of blacks-only performances.
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Educational achievement: individual aspiration and effort counts!
Frederick R. Prete argues that claims that American school exams are biased against minorities don’t stand up to close examination. What really matters is aspiration and rigorous course work.
Book review: ‘Nice Racism: How progressive white people perpetuate racial harm’ by Robin DiAngelo
Robin DiAngelo achieved widespread fame with her book White Fragility, delivering the ideas of Critical Race Theory to an audience of progressives. Here, Graeme Kemp reviews her follow-up, which carries on the same, Catch-22 outlook: if you’re white, you’re a racist – and if you disagree, you’re a racist in denial.
New film: The Fall of Minneapolis
A new film from Alpha News challenges the narrative about George Floyd’s death that inspired both Black Lives Matter protests and the wave of EDI/anti-racism policies across institutions and big business.
Book review: ‘Me and White Supremacy’ by Layla F Saad
Graeme Kemp argues that Layla F Saad’s book is wrong to promote ideas like ‘white privilege’ and ignore the value of ‘colour-blind’ approaches to dealing with racism.
Mainstreaming jihad
Prakash Shah argues that the left’s identification of revolutionary potential in Islamic fundamentalism is creating a paradigmatic shift in a public understanding in which Islamist fundamentalism, once associated with criminal violence, is now associated with ‘resistance’.
UNCANCELLED: Indoctrination or Education?
Following her shocking cancellation from a recent education conference, the Free Speech Union (FSU) was delighted to be able to re-platform the debate between Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don’t Divide Us (DDU), film studies teacher Toby Marshall, Dr Ruth Wareham, lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham, and John Marrill, teacher of history and politics. The debate took place on Monday 16 October with audience members both ‘in the room’ and online.
Sean Corby: what my dad taught me and why I fight for my belief
Sean Corby explains why he felt he had to take a stand against his employer’s attempts to tell him what opinions he could express at work.
Statement from the director of DDU on the Rethinking Education conference
Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert was disinvited from taking part in a discussion on indoctrination in education at the Rethinking Education conference. Here, Alka responds to what happened and an apology by Dr James Mannion.
Coverage of Alka Sehgal Cuthbert’s disinvitation from Rethinking Education conference
There was widespread coverage of Rethinking Education’s decision to disinvite Alka Sehgal Cuthbert to speak on indoctrination in education.
