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The Opera
Click for music! Overture from Carmen, by Bizet. When most of us think of opera we think of rotund, bearded men, gaudily garbed women (or rabbits) with Viking horns, and…
LABOUR’S LOVE’S LOST: WHY I LEFT THE PARTY
A somewhat tatty beige paper card still lies in a drawer somewhere in my basement. My original Labour Party membership card has survived four decades and several house moves. The…
Symbolism and Insanity: In Defense of the Flag
Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I was getting comfortable in my home office when…
Disunity Around the Incorrect Gender
For many people, a union meeting conjures up images of flat-capped miners around an oil drum full of burning wood. The reality is that our industry primarily contains those who…
Skirmishes with Postmodernism and Critical Social Justice – Then and Now
Even if it seems like the shadow of Critical Social Justice hangs all around you, and has captured the minds of those you work with, do not abandon hope. Its…
Newspeak on Campus
When reading about speech censorship on university campuses both in the UK and across the pond, I wondered if it was all just catastrophising based on a few outlier events….
Transin’ the Suburbs
I never believed I would have a negative word to say about the transgender movement. I was born into a middle-class family of liberal Democrats. My grandparents emigrated from Europe…
Why I Came to Resent CRT Diversity Training
My first encounter with Critical Race Theory (CRT) diversity training was in 1999. Yes, it’s been around that long. I doubt it was known as CRT training then but the…
How a Courageous Social Worker Brought Down a Toxic County-Wide “Diversity” Initiative
I interviewed Jennifer Friend, a clinical social worker who opposed a coercive and demeaning government-sponsored diversity initiative. Jennifer’s opposition provides a roadmap for how others might counter such policies in…
Six Concerns about Anti-Racism in the Humanitarian, Development and Charity Sector
A great number of organisations and institutions in the global north, whether they make ice-cream, manufacture pillows or deliver healthcare in warzones, are suddenly making public commitments to rid themselves…
Uneasy about Diversity Initiatives? You Aren’t Alone (or Racist….)
Uneasy about diversity initiatives? You aren’t alone (or racist…) There are many justifiable reasons that an individual may object to their employer’s implementation of policies or training programmes that claim…
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