EDI is divisive, counter-productive and encourages groupthink, writes Raquel Rosario Sánchez. All too often, the purpose of this training is not to promote inclusivity and a welcoming environment, but to announce, and enforce, a certain ideologically prescribed dogma.
The Welsh Government has finalised official "decolonisation" guidelines which instructs public bodies, including Wales’s National Museum in Cardiff, on how to ensure statues, plaques and paintings project the “right historic narrative”.
Leeds University has introduced a social media policy that instructs staff and students not to post "unfairly disparaging" content online, putting the institution on a collision course with the OfS when new academic free speech laws are activated later this year.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has reiterated his commitment to passing Ireland's draconian new hate speech bill, despite numerous government Teachta Dálas calling for it to be summarily scrapped in the wake of Scotland's disastrous experiment with similar legislation.
The FSU of Australia’s co-founder, Reuben Kirkham, has written a guest blog piece for us, on the organisation’s overflowing in-tray. As well as their usual case work and members’ events, in the last month they’ve launched two legal challenges as well as having run an ‘uncancelled’ tour for Graham Linehan.
An FSU member explains how the organisation helped them after they were fired for expressing gender-critical concerns in the workplace.
News of the Cass Review’s damning indictment of NHS England’s treatment of children with gender issues has finally reached Scotland — but it's not just clinicians who have been telling children they were 'born in the wrong body' and that harmful medicine is the only viable treatment, says Gillian Philip.
Lecturers and researchers at Edinburgh University have claimed that some staff who identify as trans and their allies are likely to be more marginalised on campus and their complaints to senior management “denied or ignored”.
According to official Police Scotland figures, a total of 9,374 hate crimes have been reported to police since Scotland’s draconian new Hate Crime law was activated on 1st April, with only 0.6 per cent deemed legitimate.
A high court judge has thrown out an attempt by the government’s most senior law officer to prosecute a woman for holding a placard on jury rights outside a climate trial.
The woke tide may have turned, writes Kathleen Stock, but it's too soon to relax just yet — the ideology is embedded in organisations, and policies tend to dictate organisational behaviour long after those who first championed them move on.
Oxford dons have accused the university of allowing political diversity to “wither away” after its head of equality celebrated the Belgian police’s attempt to shut down a conservative conference.
A video has emerged showing a man being visited at home by two police officers and an NHS psychologist after he expressed anger online about the stabbing of a Bishop in Sydney by an Islamist.
MPs have raised concerns about the government funding a disinformation ratings agency that compiles a ‘blocklist’ of publications that publish perfectly lawful content that it deems ‘harmful’, and then gives that list to advertisers with the aim of persuading them not to advertise on those sites.
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