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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
A lifelong England cricket fan considers the recent report of the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket, ahead of the formal response from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
