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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…)   There are many justifiable reasons that an individual may object to their employer’s implementation of policies or training programmes that claim…