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EDI and Oppression-Point Olympics
Been there, done that . . One of the most striking moments in this striking interview for me was the moment that ‘strictest headteacher in the world’ Katharine Birbalsingh warned UK parents against thinking they could avoid social-justice/EDI style indoctrination of their … Continue reading
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Adults in the Room
Falling out of love with Progressives Like so many elderly lefty feminists I’ve found myself on ground politically shiftier in recent years – months – than any I’ve tread for decades, if ever. Mainly thanks to the so-called ‘Gender Wars’; … Continue reading
‘Safetyism’ vs Safeguarding
(First published a month ago on substack) ‘She makes me feel unsafe!’ This has been the frighteningly effective accusation from rainbow flag identified youth, on university campuses, workplaces and elsewhere across developed world, against those colleagues or teachers they consider … Continue reading
Crazy Lazy Takes a Stand
On Conversion Therapy bans A couple of weeks before Christmas, a fundraiser knocked on my front door, rattling his collection bucket – a good-looking young man, not much older than my son, with a lovely beaming smile. I beamed back, … Continue reading
Noblesse Oblige, or De Rigueur Wokery Pokery.
Matthew Syed’s impassioned response in the Sunday Times to the spectacle of three Ivy League college heads failing to agree with a US Congress inquiry that calling for genocide on campus is unacceptable, pulls no punches about ‘woke think’ being … Continue reading
A History of Rejections
From a Sixty-Something Slush-Pile Stalwart Rejection slips aren’t what they used to be. They are not slips anymore, of course, but emails, and the content has also changed significantly. Here’s one of mine from 1993: “Thank you for sending in … Continue reading
A rare expedition to a North London literary festival
And who knows – whisper it – I might just pick up the odd tip on writing autobiographically from under the shadow of a debilitating family legacy. That is something it would be worth crossing London for. Continue reading
Listen to Young People, sure . . .
‘We listen to young people’ . .’listening to young people is really important’ . . I seem to have heard variations on this sentiment a lot lately. The Children’s Commissioner is keen on it as a strategy, having initiated a … Continue reading
ATTN Mayor of London
Dear Sadiq Khan Did you happen to notice what went on in Auckland NZ last Friday? Did you see the footage from various angles of a violent ‘rainbow’ mob turning on British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker, so that, fearing … Continue reading
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