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More Oxford colleges and departments are forcing students and staff to have ‘unconscious bias training’ to root out hidden racist behaviour – even though there’s no evidence that it works. The Government insists that the training ‘does not achieve its intended aims’, could make discrimination issues worse, and should be axed by the public sector. … Read more
Every student at Margaret Thatcher’s old Oxford college was ordered to take a course in ‘unconscious bias’ to expose innate ‘racism, homophobia, transphobia and disability discrimination’. Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, principal of Somerville College, instructed students to complete the online class by this Friday, and told them they must ‘achieve a mark of 100 per … Read more
National Trust is accused of recruiting ‘biased’ team of academics to probe its properties links to empire and the slave trade Colonial Countryside projects looks into links of 11 trust properties to slave trade The project involves nine historians working with 100 primary school children However, the National Trust has come under fire for the … Read more
Controversial ‘unconscious bias’ training for civil servants – which assumes everyone is racist – is scrapped after study finds no evidence that it works In blow to ‘woke’ agenda, Government plans to scrap ‘unconscious bias’ training The mandatory courses will end after official study found no evidence it works Department for Work and Pensions spent £112,500 … Read more
Female BBC staff past and present reacted with fury yesterday after the equality watchdog found no unlawful pay discrimination against women at the corporation. Former BBC presenter Carrie Gracie, who was at the heart of a huge equal pay row, branded the verdict by the Equality and Human Rights Commission a ‘whitewash’. The EHRC was … Read more
JON SOPEL, £245,000-a-year BBC salary: Jon Sopel, 60, is paid up to £245,000 a year in his role as the broadcaster’s North America Editor, covering all aspects of US news including politics, policy and business. But the presenter last year sparked a conflict of interest row after accepting tens of thousands of pounds from the biggest bank … Read more
The remains of a British soldier in Westminster Abbey’s grave of The Unknown Warrior are likely to be those of a white man because of ‘racial bias’ in the 1920s, report claims Troop’s body was brought from France and buried in the church 100 years ago The site has become one of the most visited … Read more
The BBC’s new political drama Roadkill was today slammed for its ‘left-wing bias’ as calls grew for a new chairman who will stop the broadcaster ‘disappearing in a puff of woke smoke’. The drama sees Hugh Laurie playing corrupt Tory government minister Peter Laurence, who in the first episode is seen lying in court during … Read more
Revealed: Whitehall mandarins spent £370,000 on unconscious bias training despite doubts about its effectiveness Seven Government departments spent £370,000 on unconscious bias training The Department for Work and Pensions came top with £112,500 over two years Civil Service Talent Action Plan required workers to be taught unconscious bias Equality and Human Rights Commission found no … Read more
A senior Tory MP revealed today he will refuse to take part in ‘unconscious bias’ training for MPs arranged in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. Ben Bradley, a vice-chairman of the party under Theresa May, lashed out at a ‘metropolitan groupthink that is intolerant to any diversity of views’ and said he … Read more