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DDU’s Open Letter to the FA on Taking the Knee
Dear Mark Bullingham, In your recent message to England supporters, you said: ‘Major tournaments don’t come around often, and when ...
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Newsletter 2021-06-11: Racists for tea / White Mind psychopathy / Colston’s Mob / It’s not just cricket / A knee on the neck of fans / A magdalen affair / The Woke Uni
What We’ve Been Up To Academics Group co-chair Dr Philip Hammond has been researching and developing a history and critique ...
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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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Premiere of The Great American Race Game documentary
Don’t Divide Us is hosting the UK Premiere of Martin Durkin’s ‘The Great American Race Game’ documentary film, Thursday 1st July, ...
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Academia
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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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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Academic Freedom
Impartiality Is Needed for Academic Freedom
Jim Butcher, writing in Spiked, responds to Middlesex University's formal rejection of the government's report on racial and ethnic disparities ...
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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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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
DDU’s Open Letter to the FA on Taking the Knee
Dear Mark Bullingham, In your recent message to England supporters, you said: ‘Major tournaments don’t come around often, and when ...
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Newsletter 2021-06-11: Racists for tea / White Mind psychopathy / Colston’s Mob / It’s not just cricket / A knee on the neck of fans / A magdalen affair / The Woke Uni
What We’ve Been Up To Academics Group co-chair Dr Philip Hammond has been researching and developing a history and critique ...
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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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Premiere of The Great American Race Game documentary
Don’t Divide Us is hosting the UK Premiere of Martin Durkin’s ‘The Great American Race Game’ documentary film, Thursday 1st July, ...
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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 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
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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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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Critical Race Theory
Premiere of The Great American Race Game documentary
Don’t Divide Us is hosting the UK Premiere of Martin Durkin’s ‘The Great American Race Game’ documentary film, Thursday 1st July, ...
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Who needs ‘intersectionality’?
Public institutions and businesses are increasingly signing up to the idea of ‘intersectionality’, promising a sensitive appreciation of difference and ...
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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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Guide for Parents on Schools, CRT & Political Impartiality
Following many inquiries from parents who are concerned about what their children's schools are promoting through the curriculum, assemblies and ...
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Decolonisation
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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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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Education
Discipline for Freedom: a former inner London head teacher reflects
Tim Clark was a secondary school Head for eighteen years, firstly of a Lincolnshire grammar school which he led to ...
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DDU’s public event on the CRED Report: substance not smears
On Friday May 14th, DDU hosted a public meeting to discuss the substance of the Commission for Racial and Ethnic ...
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Race in the City: an Anti-Democratic & Anti-Educational Practice
Film -maker, writer and local resident, Adrian Hart, argues that BLMs ideological take-over of Brighton and Hove City Council is a ...
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Guide for Parents on Schools, CRT & Political Impartiality
Following many inquiries from parents who are concerned about what their children's schools are promoting through the curriculum, assemblies and ...
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Free Speech
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’s Open Letter to the FA on Taking the Knee
Dear Mark Bullingham, In your recent message to England supporters, you said: ‘Major tournaments don’t come around often, and when ...
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Krishan Kumar in the TLS reviews three books on Britain, slavery, empire and racism
In The Times Literary Supplement, Krishan Kumar reviews Slave Empire by Padraic X. Scanlan, The Interest by Michael Taylor, and The ...
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DDU’s public event on the CRED Report: substance not smears
On Friday May 14th, DDU hosted a public meeting to discuss the substance of the Commission for Racial and Ethnic ...
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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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Schools
Discipline for Freedom: a former inner London head teacher reflects
Tim Clark was a secondary school Head for eighteen years, firstly of a Lincolnshire grammar school which he led to ...
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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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Letter re. CRT based anti-racism in Brighton & Hove schools
Following information that Brighton and Hove Council are planning to implement a new anti-racist policy that promotes beliefs from Critical ...
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Race in the City: an Anti-Democratic & Anti-Educational Practice
Film -maker, writer and local resident, Adrian Hart, argues that BLMs ideological take-over of Brighton and Hove City Council is a ...
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Social Justice
Who needs ‘intersectionality’?
Public institutions and businesses are increasingly signing up to the idea of ‘intersectionality’, promising a sensitive appreciation of difference and ...
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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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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
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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Critical Race Theory & the ‘Hyper-White Jew’
Pamela Paresky's thoughtful and thought-provoking essay in Sapir Journal considers how, in America, the concept of 'whiteness' in critical race ...
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Two Concepts of Free Speech, From Classical Athens to Today’s Campus
James Kierstead at Antigone Journal considers how two concepts of free speech might help us to make distinctions that might ...
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Impartiality Is Needed for Academic Freedom
Jim Butcher, writing in Spiked, responds to Middlesex University's formal rejection of the government's report on racial and ethnic disparities ...
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Unconscious Bias
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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Critical Race Theory & the ‘Hyper-White Jew’
Pamela Paresky's thoughtful and thought-provoking essay in Sapir Journal considers how, in America, the concept of 'whiteness' in critical race ...
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Two Concepts of Free Speech, From Classical Athens to Today’s Campus
James Kierstead at Antigone Journal considers how two concepts of free speech might help us to make distinctions that might ...
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Impartiality Is Needed for Academic Freedom
Jim Butcher, writing in Spiked, responds to Middlesex University's formal rejection of the government's report on racial and ethnic disparities ...
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Workplaces [Public Institutions and Professions]
Who needs ‘intersectionality’?
Public institutions and businesses are increasingly signing up to the idea of ‘intersectionality’, promising a sensitive appreciation of difference and ...
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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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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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