Overview Two reports published this year have drawn completely different conclusions about the causes of remaining racial disparities in UK society. The recently published Runnymede shadow report to the International Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) claims that ‘systemic racism’ is the singular explanation of racial inequality in the UK. By contrast, the […]
Letter from the Prime Minister
DDU are delighted to have received a letter from the Prime Minister acknowledging our work in relation to the CRED Report. As ever, it’s a collective effort so thanks to all involved in producing the open letter, the response and the public meeting!
DDU’s public event on the CRED Report: substance not smears
VIDEO: DDU members discuss the CRED report with some of the report’s commissioners.
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 with an important rejoinder: Universities should be places where staff and students are free to share and develop their views. This includes those who dissent from prevailing orthodoxies
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 the CRED Report’s critics: Then there is UK Black Lives Matter. UK BLM strives for the eventual abolition of the police in the UK – even though fewer than one in five black Brits would […]
DDU’s Letter to Kemi Badenoch on CRED Report: Education
Read DDU’s response to the recommendations on education in the CRED Report.
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 supported by a wider range of empirical evidence and logical reasoning tells us that more of us need to be brave and speak out – we need to publicly defend both the report and its […]