What We’ve Been Up To Are you a teacher with questions or concerns about the educational implications of new active anti-racist initiatives? Or how Critical Race Theory-based curricula and teaching sit with a professional obligation to impartiality? If so we’d love to hear from you! Do get in touch with us if you’d like to […]
Newsletter 2021-08-20: AWOL over Afghanistan / Protecting racial slurs / Cynical business / Kate Clanchy / US police division / Professing to Madam Butterfly / Drake canards
What We’ve Been Up To CALLING PARENTS: We’d love to hear from parents who have experience of their children’s schools promoting a one-sided view about racism/anti-racism. Has your child been taught that all white children have ‘white privilege’, without any question, for example? Or, if you are a parent from an ethnic minority background, has […]
Newsletter 2021-08-13: Knotty professors / Manufacturing dissent / Currying racism / Macro-aggressions / Knife crime denial / Met Police bad faith / Un-British Sea Power
What We’ve Been Up To DDU hosted a screening of Martin Durkin’s The Great American Race Game at the Screen on the Green cinema in London. Bold and brave, the fascinating film was followed by a lively Q&A with the director and with the charismatic, no-holds-barred Beveline Beatty, one of the main interviewees in the […]
Newsletter 2021-08-06: Undiverse thinking in the academy / Colour complexity / What a Geordie Boer! / All aboard the Caliphate express / Security makes (arts) cowards
What We’ve Been Up To Don’t Divide Us hosted a lively session on the Sewell Report at the Battle of Ideas Open For Debate festival on Saturday 31 August with Tony Sewell on on film (pictured), who was joined by Professor James Tooley, Kunle Olulode, Patrick Vernon and Zara Qureshi with DDU’s Dr Alka Sehgal […]
Newsletter 2021-07-30: Parents Voices / Uni-think / Teachers’ authority / Pyongyang, USA / Union Stamped / Competing rights / NHS privilege / Reality gap / What the Hayek?!
What We’ve Been Up To DDU has launched the Parents Voices Project to allow parents alarmed by the new brand of radical racial activism in schools. We hope this collective voice will illuminate the real impact on children and families of the aggressive re-racialisation of society. Read more in our recent mailer. We are asking […]
Newsletter 2021-07-23: DDU CERD report event / Di Angelo heart-broken / Baroness Falkner speaks up / Oxford dons’ tantrums / Dead White Men / Can we fix hate crime laws?
What We’ve Been Up To On Thursday evening, DDU hosted a successful event, ‘Is the UK systemically racist?’, in the context of the recent Runnymede Trust CERD report. Chaired by Professor Doug Stokes, the panellists included DDU founding signatories Dr Rakib Ehsan, Ike Ijeh and Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, and Sewell (CRED) report co-opted member Kunle Olulode. […]
2021-07-16: Politicised football comes home / Online Harms Bill / Worcester College’s elastic conscience / Redbridge Libraries misreads the room / Brighton Watch
What We’ve Been Up To On 22nd July DDU is hosting a public discussion online entitled Is the UK systemically racist?, on the Runnymede Trust’s report submitted this week to the International Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and the recent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) ‘Sewell report’. Taking part will […]
Newsletter 2021-07-09: Ofsted warns schools / Taxpayer-funded lobbying / Baffled by Bard / Academics vs Atticus / Opaque BHCC / Primary England video / Sterling interview
What We’ve Been Up To This week we held our first ‘official’ DDU Parents’ meeting at which we shared experiences, discussed how to engage other parents around these issues, and planned future events and activities. Our next meeting is on Wednesday, July 21st at 10 am. Do get in touch if you’d like to get […]
Newsletter 2021-07-02: One year of DDU / Uncharitable Oxfam / Leave those kids alone / Chopped chaplain / Taunted tutor / Pain power / No melting pot the American School
What We’ve Been Up To We are launching a Parents’ Group, which will host its first meeting on the morning of 7 July. If you want to take part, drop us a line. And this week DDU celebrated its first-year birthday – a joyful event with real people, wine and food! We would like to […]
Newsletter 2021-06-25: Brighton petition / Education Committee verdict / Royal Academy apology / Trans athletes vs PoC / Rufo Fisks WaPo / Oxford students invite in censors
What We’ve Been Up To The petition Don’t Divide Us supporter Adrian Hart launched demanding democratic scrutiny of Brighton and Hove City Council’s plan to adopt CRT in schools has taken off and has over 2,000 signatures. (See last week’s newsletter and News Nuggets.) It has also been covered in The Brighton Argus by Sarah […]