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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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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 McDonald at medium.com argues ...
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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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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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Academia
Open letter to UCU members and conference delegates
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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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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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New research on decolonising discourses as a symptom of morbidity
In this new paper by Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, it is argued that the claims of decolonising discourses are a morbid ...
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Academic Freedom
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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John McWhorter on why academics fear for their freedom
A national reckoning on race, John McWorther writes, has brought to the fore a loose but committed assemblage of people ...
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Africa
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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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 McDonald at medium.com argues ...
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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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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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Arts & Culture
We’re facing a tsunami of censorship
"The authoritarian tide is rising", warns Toby Young. It's now "open season on mavericks and dissenters". How can we push ...
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Stop apologising for cultural appropriation
The concept of "cultural appropriation” has gone from the esoteric academic realm of post-colonial and decolonial studies, to being a ...
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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
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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“Black Lives Matter: A Guide to Teaching Sixth Formers about Racism and Inequality”
The Free Speech Union has published a guide written and sent to them by a teacher. Teaching schoolchildren about these ...
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Why Black Lives Matter are so dangerous
Nick Buckley wrote a blog post criticising Black Lives Matter, and found himself targeted by an online petition to have ...
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Racism is a problem, white people are not
Contemporary politics is often driven by "cultural or psychological anxieties", argues Kenan Malik. We need to consider social and structural ...
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Cancel Culture
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 McDonald at medium.com argues ...
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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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John McWhorter on why academics fear for their freedom
A national reckoning on race, John McWorther writes, has brought to the fore a loose but committed assemblage of people ...
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The University of Edinburgh’s crusade against the Enlightenment
Edinburgh University takes yet another step to distance itself from its most important intellectual legacy – the Scottish Enlightenment – ...
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Critical Race Theory
The Psychology of Critical Race Theory
Psychologist Dr Carole Sherwood analyses Critical Race Theory—and finds it wanting: Critical Race Theory does not provide the best tools ...
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Critical Race Theory: helpful or harmful?
"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves but the way in which we think about them".Epictetus ...
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The Insidious March of Critical Race Theory In Schools May Be Breaking The Law
In the wake of the BLM protests, many school heads are rushing for help to find resources which accord with ...
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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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Decolonisation
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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We’ve Learned So Much From Dead White Men – Trying To Remove Them From History Is Madness
It's often claimed that accepting or conforming to Western canonical standards necessarily means non-white people have to pay too high ...
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Not All The Facts Fit The Anti-Colonialist Narrative
There have been understandable pressures on African anti-colonialists that have led to a narrative equally reductive and simplistic, if not ...
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The Danger of ‘Decolonising’ Education
Education activists and diversity consultants claim decolonising education is the same as improving it. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert at Spiked Online ...
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Education
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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The Danger of ‘Decolonising’ Education
Education activists and diversity consultants claim decolonising education is the same as improving it. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert at Spiked Online ...
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The campus grievance industry
Doug Stokes, Professor of International Security at the University of Exeter, writes that before the killing of George Floyd, UK ...
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Let kids be kids
The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism, argues Ella Whelan: It’s this fetishisation of white self hatred ...
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Free Speech
The Psychology of Critical Race Theory
Psychologist Dr Carole Sherwood analyses Critical Race Theory—and finds it wanting: Critical Race Theory does not provide the best tools ...
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Critical Race Theory: helpful or harmful?
"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves but the way in which we think about them".Epictetus ...
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Modern Day Witchfinders Won’t End Hate By Pulling Down Statues – They’ll Only Fuel It
It's one thing to provide a reasoned case for removing the Rhodes statue at Oriel College, but the current demands ...
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“Black Lives Matter: A Guide to Teaching Sixth Formers about Racism and Inequality”
The Free Speech Union has published a guide written and sent to them by a teacher. Teaching schoolchildren about these ...
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Racism
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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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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The Fight to Redefine Racism
Kelefa Sanneh writes on Ibram X's argument for redefining racism, as he believed that we should think of “racist” not ...
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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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Schools
The Insidious March of Critical Race Theory In Schools May Be Breaking The Law
In the wake of the BLM protests, many school heads are rushing for help to find resources which accord with ...
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Let kids be kids
The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism, argues Ella Whelan: It’s this fetishisation of white self hatred ...
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Is unconscious-bias training the new Brain Gym?
More and more people are recommending that unconscious-bias training should be brought into schools to tackle racism. This is a ...
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Channel 4 – ‘The School That Tried To End Racism’
Last weekend, I watched both episodes of a Channel 4 documentary called The School That Tried To End Racism which ...
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Social Justice
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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We’re facing a tsunami of censorship
"The authoritarian tide is rising", warns Toby Young. It's now "open season on mavericks and dissenters". How can we push ...
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The dehumanising condescension of ‘White Fragility’
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, argues John McWhorter, is "the prayer book for what can only be described as a cult": In ...
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Systemic Racism
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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White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief
What happens, asks Helen Pluckrose, when an ideology holds that beliefs other than its own are harmful and oppressive of ...
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Universities
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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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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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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The University of Edinburgh’s crusade against the Enlightenment
Edinburgh University takes yet another step to distance itself from its most important intellectual legacy – the Scottish Enlightenment – ...
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Unconscious Bias
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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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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Read More
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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The University of Edinburgh’s crusade against the Enlightenment
Edinburgh University takes yet another step to distance itself from its most important intellectual legacy – the Scottish Enlightenment – ...
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Workplaces [Public Institutions and Professions]
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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Unconscious Bias Training Is Divisive Nonsense
Many public and private institutions and workplaces are turning to alleged anti-racist training materials and providers that endorse the idea ...
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“I Left the British Psychological Society — And This Is What Happened”
Psychologist Kirsty Miller blogs on Medium about her experience of becoming professionally homeless. [A]fter a great deal of deliberation I ...
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Why Black Lives Matter are so dangerous
Nick Buckley wrote a blog post criticising Black Lives Matter, and found himself targeted by an online petition to have ...
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