Don’t Divide Us hosting UK Premiere of Martin Durkin’s ‘The Great American Race Game’ documentary film on 1 July
Who needs ‘intersectionality’?
by Philip Hammond on behalf of DDU academics The concept of ‘intersectionality’ seems omnipresent today. Human Resources departments in public institutions and businesses miss no opportunity to trumpet its significance. HR Magazine emphasises ‘the importance of intersectionality in HR’, while Personnel Today warns that failure to take proper account of intersectionality could mean that ‘organisations […]
Singh Investigation on Islamaphobia in the Conservative party reports
The Singh Investigation into alleged discrimination, citing protected characteristics, including Islamaphobia, in the Conservative party reports
Krishan Kumar in the TLS reviews three books on Britain, slavery, empire and racism
Three books on Britain, slavery, empire and racism
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Race in the City: an Anti-Democratic & Anti-Educational Practice
BLMs ideological take-over of Brighton and Hove City Council is a disaster for democratic accountability and a recipe for division in its schools.
Two Concepts of Free Speech, From Classical Athens to Today’s Campus
James Kierstead on how two concepts of free speech might offer a way forward in today’s campus controversies
Impartiality Is Needed for Academic Freedom
Jim Butcher, writing in Spiked, responds to Middlesex University’s formal rejection of the government’s report on racial and ethnic disparities with an important rejoinder: Universities should be places where staff and students are free to share and develop their views. This includes those who dissent from prevailing orthodoxies