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How Can Anyone Take The Race Lobby Seriously?
Rakib Ehsan in Spiked, and signatory of DDU's open letter, points to the anti-democratic, wholly ideological response of some of ...
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DDU Open Letter to UK Government about CRED Report
Sign the letter Dear Prime Minister, We write to commend the CRED report and its recommendations. The CRED Report's key ...
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‘Islamaphobia!’ The Accusation That Silences Dissent!
From Samuel Paty in France last year, and more recently events at Batley Grammar School, it is clear that we ...
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Academia
A Matter of Historical Specificity (or its absence)
Below, J. Unsworth, a DDU supporter and former student of History and English Literature, explains why she found an event ...
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Free Speech and English Working-Class Identity
In this honest and moving account, Bradley Strotten at The Equiano Project, and ambassador for the newly formed Free Speech ...
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Prejudice Under The Microscope: The Implicit Association Test (Part II)
The latest report from the team at Minding the Campus from part of the White Fragility Symposium, provides a forensic ...
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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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Academic Freedom
Tackling Racism In Higher Ed
In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
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Cambridge Dons Win Free Speech Row, Defeat New ‘Authoritarian’ Rules
Camilla Turner at The Telegraph interviewed Dr Arif Ahmed, a philosophy lecturer who spearheaded a campaign at Cambridge University to ...
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Free Speech In Cambridge Is Under Threat. We Must Defend It.
Cambridge student Sophie Watson at tcs makes an eloquent case against a policy that is presented as protecting free speech ...
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Africa
How Can Anyone Take The Race Lobby Seriously?
Rakib Ehsan in Spiked, and signatory of DDU's open letter, points to the anti-democratic, wholly ideological response of some of ...
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DDU Open Letter to UK Government about CRED Report
Sign the letter Dear Prime Minister, We write to commend the CRED report and its recommendations. The CRED Report's key ...
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‘Islamaphobia!’ The Accusation That Silences Dissent!
From Samuel Paty in France last year, and more recently events at Batley Grammar School, it is clear that we ...
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Arts & Culture
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BBC
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 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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Critical race theory: a ruling-class ideology
The mainstreaming and elite-backing of anti-racism initiatives is promoting a new form of racial thinking, argues Joanna Williams in spiked ...
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A New (Third) letter to a Vice Chancellor from a Don’t Divide Us supporter
Over on our Universities, you can follow a link to our third letter to a Vice Chancellor To be told ...
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Cancel Culture
How Can Anyone Take The Race Lobby Seriously?
Rakib Ehsan in Spiked, and signatory of DDU's open letter, points to the anti-democratic, wholly ideological response of some of ...
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‘Lived Experience’ Is A Sin Against Literature
Ella Whelan at The Telegraph argues that Janice Deul's complaint that the original choice of translator for Amanda Gorman's poetry ...
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The Battle For Eton’s Soul
Toby Young at 'The Spectator' considers the implications for Eton's educational ethos, as well as for the dismissed Mr Knowland, ...
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The Age Of Cant
Theodore Dalrymple at the City Journal considers the differences between the humbug of cant and hypocrisy, which at least has ...
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Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory in the Workplace
With much of the media attention focused on academia and public institutions, we can forget that the divisive and pernicious ...
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Utopian Dreams and Totalitarian Nightmares: The Coerced Morality of Critical Race Theory
We are familiar with the political and social negative consequences of critical race theory, but here Justine Waters at Areo ...
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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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From Psychotherapist to Psychoactivist: How Therapy is Becoming Derailed
By Val Thomas This is a public health warning: the seal on the tin labelled Counselling and Psychotherapy has been ...
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Decolonisation
Why the West Isn’t Racist
Ralph Leonard at Unherd points out some important flaws in Kehinde Andrew's narrative of the Enlightenment as an example of ...
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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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The Universality of Literature- A Response to Calls to Decolonise It
Earlier this year, PGCE lecturer, Lesley Nelson-Addy, wrote in Britain’s leading professional publication for English teachers: The ‘new’ GCSE curriculum ...
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Open letter: a response from the ‘100’ French scholars
Following the murder of school teacher Samuel Paty, over 100 French academics published a Manifesto supporting a universalist approach to ...
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Education
DDU’s Letter to Kemi Badenoch on CRED Report: Education
Last year DDU's Tarjinder Gill submitted evidence to the Committee for Racial and Ethnic Disparities. Now the report is published ...
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DDU’s Response to The Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities’ Report
The CRED Report does not deny that racism exists, but it does maintain that not all disparities are incontrovertible proof ...
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Why French Teachers Are Afraid
Agnes Poirier at Unherd considers how religious separatism and an unwillingness to address questions of nation and commonality in France ...
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Teaching ‘white fragility’ is bad for kids of color
Unless we adopt 'a more humanistic approach, grounded in respect for the common qualities that bind us all', argues Rav ...
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Free Speech
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Racism
How Can Anyone Take The Race Lobby Seriously?
Rakib Ehsan in Spiked, and signatory of DDU's open letter, points to the anti-democratic, wholly ideological response of some of ...
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We Need to Defend the CRED Report And Its Authors
The hysterical and vicious reaction to the simple point that labels of 'institutional, systemic and structural racism' need to be ...
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DDU’s Response to The Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities’ Report
The CRED Report does not deny that racism exists, but it does maintain that not all disparities are incontrovertible proof ...
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Racism & Enlightenment
Ian Buruma at Persuasion argues that if there is a problem with Enlightenment thought, it is not because of its ...
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Schools
The Danger of Apologising Too Quickly
Events at Batley Grammar School this week have resulted in a teacher and his family having to go into hiding ...
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Why French Teachers Are Afraid
Agnes Poirier at Unherd considers how religious separatism and an unwillingness to address questions of nation and commonality in France ...
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Teaching ‘white fragility’ is bad for kids of color
Unless we adopt 'a more humanistic approach, grounded in respect for the common qualities that bind us all', argues Rav ...
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The Battle For Eton’s Soul
Toby Young at 'The Spectator' considers the implications for Eton's educational ethos, as well as for the dismissed Mr Knowland, ...
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Social Justice
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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The problem with identity politics
In this Q&A interview, Asad Haider, author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, reflects on ...
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Systemic Racism
Critical race theory: a ruling-class ideology
The mainstreaming and elite-backing of anti-racism initiatives is promoting a new form of racial thinking, argues Joanna Williams in spiked ...
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Culture Wars Are About Our Society
Once again history and historiography are in the limelight. One approach involves 'a notion of trust between the generations'. We ...
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Why Nobody is Systemically Racist
James Lindsay argues why falling prey to bad theory can make it harder to ascertain moral responsibility where racism is ...
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On ‘White Fragility’
Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller has "a simple message", argues Matt Taibbi: "there is no such thing as a universal human experience, ...
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Universities
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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The University and the Social Justice Movement: A French Perspective
Michel Tavernier at Areo wonders why French universities, home of intellectuals closely associated with postmodernism, seem immune from the excesses ...
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Tackling Racism In Higher Ed
In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
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UUK: ‘Tackling Racial Harassment in Higher Education’ — A Response from Don’t Divide Us
As a group of DDU supporters who work in academia, we feel compelled to draw attention to the potential problems ...
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Unconscious Bias
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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The University and the Social Justice Movement: A French Perspective
Michel Tavernier at Areo wonders why French universities, home of intellectuals closely associated with postmodernism, seem immune from the excesses ...
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Tackling Racism In Higher Ed
In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
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UUK: ‘Tackling Racial Harassment in Higher Education’ — A Response from Don’t Divide Us
As a group of DDU supporters who work in academia, we feel compelled to draw attention to the potential problems ...
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Workplaces [Public Institutions and Professions]
DDU’s Response to The Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities’ Report
The CRED Report does not deny that racism exists, but it does maintain that not all disparities are incontrovertible proof ...
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Critical Race Theory in the Workplace
With much of the media attention focused on academia and public institutions, we can forget that the divisive and pernicious ...
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From Psychotherapist to Psychoactivist: How Therapy is Becoming Derailed
By Val Thomas This is a public health warning: the seal on the tin labelled Counselling and Psychotherapy has been ...
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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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