
Why It’s Important to Teach the Civil Rights Movement Today
The lessons of the Civil Rights Movement in America reach beyond its time and place. With Black History Month ongoing ...
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How We Bend The Knee To Our HR Overlords
Aris Roussinos at Unherd draws on the ideas of Louis Althusser to illuminate how the radical rhetoric of contemporary self-styled ...
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DDU’s Take On News This Week
Carrie Clark casts a critical DDU eye over three stories from the news this week - written before the appalling ...
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On The Importance Of The Right To Offend
Kenan Malik at the New Humanist argues that the right to offend is necessary for social progress and that those ...
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On Freedom Of Speech and The Culture Of Offence
Like others before him, in France and elsewhere, Samuel Paty was murdered because he offended. Nico Macdonald at medium.com argues ...
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Open letter to UCU members and conference delegates
We are members of the University and College Union (UCU). Some of us have been active in organising in branches, ...
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DDU’s Take On The News This Week
Equalities Minister calls out critical race theory in education The Spectator: "The Problem With Critical Race Theory" Calvin Robinson on ...
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The myth of Britain’s racist universities
The idea has taken hold that British universities are in urgent need of radical reform to overturn entrenched racial discrimination ...
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DDU’s Take On News This Week
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert picks three of this week’s news items and provides a critical DDU view. Macron, Islamism and Principles ...
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Parr For The Course
Graphic designer and photographer Howard Sherwood considers the case of Martin Parr, whose response to accusations of being racist, along ...
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Three Types of Reaction to Kemi Badenoch’s Black History Month Speech
Rahul Karnik at The Equiano Project casts his eye over the different reactions to Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch's speech reminding ...
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Arts Policy Should Return To Keynes’ Vision
Manick Govinda at SDPtalk argues against an arts policy whose model of artists and cultural institutions is closer to a ...
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DDU Statement in Solidarity with the People of France: On the Murder of Samuel Paty
Samuel Paty in Paris, Simone Barreto Silva, Nadine Devillers, Vincent Loquès and one as yet unnamed victim in Nice, and ...
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Is France’s Secularism Worth Dying For?
In the wake of recent Islamist attacks in France, John Lichfield at Unherd considers Macron's attempts to create a buffer ...
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Our City, Our Heritage And Its People
Adrian Hart draws on historical archives to show that anti-slavery was alive and well among sections of Brighton's citizenry, and ...
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Statues And Ghosts
In this personal and poignant essay, Marie Kawthar Daouda writes evocatively why, having come from a land without statues, she ...
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