The BBC needs to ask more questions of itself to understand the haemorrhage of viewers and the rising number of its critics. If we are to continue with a “national broadcaster” having access to funds from a media tax we must insist on impartiality.
The cultural sector should reflect our culture, embellish it, conserve it, and teach it to the next generation. The sector’s job is not to ‘challenge norms’ or ‘break taboos’. Neither is it to promote other cultures and vilify and attack our own.
The interesting question, for me, is not why some have disowned identity politics, but how they ever came to spout its slogans in the first place.
Free speech and DEI are not minor culture war skirmishes. They are fundamental battles over power. The party must stop treating woke as a political game, hoping to win quick points over gender definitions.
The peak woke Welsh Government is betting on the social and cultural ambitions of a postage stamp-sized elite.
He denounces his opponents rather than working out how to win them over.
How did we arrive at the point where Conservative ministers – who are now speaking up – are being forced to mount a rearguard action against our own public sector organisations?
Labour is likely to turbocharge the ESG and DEI agenda. Their proposed Race Equality Act would accelerate DEI in the workplace and burden all companies with the sort of diversity reporting the FCA wants to impose on the City.
Conservatives must realise that there are an awful lot of people who might share their revulsion at the excesses of hyper-liberal politics but are still not going to vote Tory. We’re fed up of our stagnant economy.
As long as the PopCons remain a vehicle for libertarianism, they won’t be able to offer anything more useful than politically toothless gestures against left-liberalism.
The strange but true tale of the unjust application of a Community Resolution Order – a growing means of dealing with low level offences that can have serious consequences for employment.
They have grown up in a cultural milieu that denigrates Britain’s culture and history to the point that the idea it is even worthy of respect – never mind dying for – is ridiculous.
I’d say it’s about saying things how they are, avoiding sugar-coating matters, and not denying reality because it’s inconvenient or because it doesn’t fit your ideology, world view or political agenda.
In a society increasingly eager to take offence, even wishing a particularly woke member of staff a “Merry Christmas” instead of a “Happy Holidays” could, in theory, land a struggling landlord in an employment tribunal court. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex would no doubt approve. But remember: the banter ban isn’t just for Christmas — it’s for life in Starmer’s Britain.