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Template Letter – CRT in Universities

This fantastic template letter comes from DDU supporter Diana Durham. We urge all our supporters to write to Kemi Badenoch ...
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DDU Comment – It’s just not cricket

Perhaps it’s something to do with the British attitude to fair play. We Brits seem profoundly committed to the idea of ...
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DDU Supporter Adrian Hart – ‘Schools should stop treating children as would-be racists’

In an article for spiked, DDU supporter Adrian Hart examines some of the trivial things being logged by schools as ...
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DDU Comment – Two Takes on Art and Culture

Zadie Smith, author of the award-winning debut novel ‘White Teeth and essayist, has written her first play, ‘The Wife of ...
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Academia

Eric Kaufman – ‘Kathleen Stock won’t be the last’

After the appalling treatment of gender critical academic Professor Kathleen Stock, who this week resigned from her post at the ...
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Speak out Time: ‘Expect Respect’ – why I said ‘No’.

At Don’t Divide Us we receive many messages from people who are facing the prospect of some form of compulsory ...
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The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities

Read the DDU's full report on the Race Equality Charter here. Record numbers of UK students are starting university this ...
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For Equality, Against the Race Equality Charter – Don’t Divide Us Responds To Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter

Download a PDF of the report here. Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter provides a framework through which universities are to ...
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Academic Freedom

Eric Kaufman – ‘Kathleen Stock won’t be the last’

After the appalling treatment of gender critical academic Professor Kathleen Stock, who this week resigned from her post at the ...
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The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities

Read the DDU's full report on the Race Equality Charter here. Record numbers of UK students are starting university this ...
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For Equality, Against the Race Equality Charter – Don’t Divide Us Responds To Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter

Download a PDF of the report here. Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter provides a framework through which universities are to ...
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Microaggressions: In the Eye of the Beholder

Carole Sherwood introduces the concept of microaggressions, explores what critics have to say about them and finds out why they ...
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Africa

Template Letter – CRT in Universities

This fantastic template letter comes from DDU supporter Diana Durham. We urge all our supporters to write to Kemi Badenoch ...
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DDU Comment – It’s just not cricket

Perhaps it’s something to do with the British attitude to fair play. We Brits seem profoundly committed to the idea of ...
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DDU Supporter Adrian Hart – ‘Schools should stop treating children as would-be racists’

In an article for spiked, DDU supporter Adrian Hart examines some of the trivial things being logged by schools as ...
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DDU Comment – Two Takes on Art and Culture

Zadie Smith, author of the award-winning debut novel ‘White Teeth and essayist, has written her first play, ‘The Wife of ...
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Arts & Culture

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BBC

BBC Asks ‘Is Uni Racist?’ – DDU Replies ‘No’

We expect documentaries to be well-investigated, the material may be partisan, but we would expect film-makers and the editorial gatekeepers ...
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The N-Word Is Repellent-But So Is The Belief White People Are Innately Racist

Following a mass of complaints, and predictable subsequent apologies this summer when BBC presenter Fiona Lamdin used the N word, ...
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Black Lives Matter

The Great American Race Game – A Review by DDU Supporter Clare Page

‘This is the story of the most cynical political game in history…’ says a knowing, male, English voice, over the ...
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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 ...
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The FA Needs to Stop Obfuscating

In early March DDU wrote an open letter to the FA expressing our concern over its ambivalent stance regarding BLM ...
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Trevor Phillips: BLM uses race as ‘battering ram to change society’

Trevor Phillips tells Andrew Neil that Black Lives Matter 'don't really care very much about whether black people are advanced ...
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Cancel Culture

Eric Kaufman – ‘Kathleen Stock won’t be the last’

After the appalling treatment of gender critical academic Professor Kathleen Stock, who this week resigned from her post at the ...
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Let Many Voices Bloom in the Public Sphere!

Ash Hirani, founding signatory of Don't Divide Us, writing here for The Conservative Woman, considers some of the unhelpful and ...
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Local anti-democracy in action: Brighton and Hove

DDU supporter, Adrian Hart, writing here for The Brighton Society, provides a detailed, eye-opening illustration of how local town hall ...
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The Accusation of Islamaphobia Silences Dissent

Below Khadija Khan looks at how sections of the media misrepresent Macron's attempt to deal with Islamism as an attack ...
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Critical Race Theory

DDU Comment – It’s just not cricket

Perhaps it’s something to do with the British attitude to fair play. We Brits seem profoundly committed to the idea of ...
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DDU Supporter Adrian Hart – ‘Schools should stop treating children as would-be racists’

In an article for spiked, DDU supporter Adrian Hart examines some of the trivial things being logged by schools as ...
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Speak out Time: ‘Expect Respect’ – why I said ‘No’.

At Don’t Divide Us we receive many messages from people who are facing the prospect of some form of compulsory ...
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The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities

Read the DDU's full report on the Race Equality Charter here. Record numbers of UK students are starting university this ...
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Decolonisation

The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities

Read the DDU's full report on the Race Equality Charter here. Record numbers of UK students are starting university this ...
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For Equality, Against the Race Equality Charter – Don’t Divide Us Responds To Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter

Download a PDF of the report here. Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter provides a framework through which universities are to ...
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The NEU Approach to Decolonising Education Promises Discontent and Educational Failure

In December 2019, the National Education Union (NEU) held an inaugural decolonising education national conference. With over 200 attendees, the ...
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Joanna Williams of Cieo dissects The Woke University

Joanna Williams, author of books including Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity (Palgrave, 2016) and director of CIEO, a ...
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Education

DDU Supporter Adrian Hart – ‘Schools should stop treating children as would-be racists’

In an article for spiked, DDU supporter Adrian Hart examines some of the trivial things being logged by schools as ...
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Eric Kaufman – ‘Kathleen Stock won’t be the last’

After the appalling treatment of gender critical academic Professor Kathleen Stock, who this week resigned from her post at the ...
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Black History Month on DDU

Free lesson content and resources As usual DDU will be providing teaching materials for Black History Month. You can access ...
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Speak out Time: ‘Expect Respect’ – why I said ‘No’.

At Don’t Divide Us we receive many messages from people who are facing the prospect of some form of compulsory ...
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Free Speech

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 ...
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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 ...
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Full Recording: How Islamaphobia Silences Dissent

Watch the full discussion of DDU's event on Friday 9th April 2021 on Islamaphobia -The Accusation That Silences Dissent. Dr ...
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Racism

DDU Comment – It’s just not cricket

Perhaps it’s something to do with the British attitude to fair play. We Brits seem profoundly committed to the idea of ...
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DDU Supporter Adrian Hart – ‘Schools should stop treating children as would-be racists’

In an article for spiked, DDU supporter Adrian Hart examines some of the trivial things being logged by schools as ...
Read More

DDU Comment – Two Takes on Art and Culture

Zadie Smith, author of the award-winning debut novel ‘White Teeth and essayist, has written her first play, ‘The Wife of ...
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Speak out Time: ‘Expect Respect’ – why I said ‘No’.

At Don’t Divide Us we receive many messages from people who are facing the prospect of some form of compulsory ...
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Schools

DDU Supporter Adrian Hart – ‘Schools should stop treating children as would-be racists’

In an article for spiked, DDU supporter Adrian Hart examines some of the trivial things being logged by schools as ...
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The NEU Approach to Decolonising Education Promises Discontent and Educational Failure

In December 2019, the National Education Union (NEU) held an inaugural decolonising education national conference. With over 200 attendees, the ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Social Justice

Who needs ‘intersectionality’?

by Philip Hammond on behalf of DDU academics The concept of ‘intersectionality’ seems omnipresent today. Human Resources departments in public ...
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Universities Should Exercise Healthy Scepticism Towards The Universities UK Report

Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, 'Tackling Racial Harassment ...
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Can You Be For Justice But Against Social Justice?

In this short essay, Isobel Marston, a student of philosophy, considers some problems with current understandings of social justice and ...
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Kirsty Miller on her now cancelled resignation letter to the British Psychology Society

Psychologist Kirsty Miller found the organisation’s behaviour deeply concerning, and after deliberating for a substantial amount of time, decided to ...
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Systemic Racism

DDU Comment – It’s just not cricket

Perhaps it’s something to do with the British attitude to fair play. We Brits seem profoundly committed to the idea of ...
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Speak out Time: ‘Expect Respect’ – why I said ‘No’.

At Don’t Divide Us we receive many messages from people who are facing the prospect of some form of compulsory ...
Read More

The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities

Read the DDU's full report on the Race Equality Charter here. Record numbers of UK students are starting university this ...
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Don’t Divide Us public discussion: Is the UK systemically racist?, 22/07/2021

Overview Two reports published this year have drawn completely different conclusions about the causes of remaining racial disparities in UK ...
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Universities

Template Letter – CRT in Universities

This fantastic template letter comes from DDU supporter Diana Durham. We urge all our supporters to write to Kemi Badenoch ...
Read More

Eric Kaufman – ‘Kathleen Stock won’t be the last’

After the appalling treatment of gender critical academic Professor Kathleen Stock, who this week resigned from her post at the ...
Read More

The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities

Read the DDU's full report on the Race Equality Charter here. Record numbers of UK students are starting university this ...
Read More

For Equality, Against the Race Equality Charter – Don’t Divide Us Responds To Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter

Download a PDF of the report here. Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter provides a framework through which universities are to ...
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Unconscious Bias

Template Letter – CRT in Universities

This fantastic template letter comes from DDU supporter Diana Durham. We urge all our supporters to write to Kemi Badenoch ...
Read More

Eric Kaufman – ‘Kathleen Stock won’t be the last’

After the appalling treatment of gender critical academic Professor Kathleen Stock, who this week resigned from her post at the ...
Read More

The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities

Read the DDU's full report on the Race Equality Charter here. Record numbers of UK students are starting university this ...
Read More

For Equality, Against the Race Equality Charter – Don’t Divide Us Responds To Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter

Download a PDF of the report here. Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter provides a framework through which universities are to ...
Read More

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Academic Freedom

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BBC

Black Lives Matter

Cancel Culture

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Education

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Universities

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