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Revealed: Critical Race Theory’s infiltration into UK Universities - Rahul Karnik
After Kemi Badenoch MP publicly critiqued Critical Race Theory being taught as fact in our educational institutions, a growing number of academics have signed on to a circulating letter, backing support for the ideology.
Is the ‘woke’ suspicion of reason rooted in the Enlightenment and Romantic movements? - Vicki Robinson
Is the ‘Woke’ Movement a case of déjà vu? Is the appeal to subjectivity and human emotion a case of history repeating itself? In this article, we find parallels between modern society, the Woke Movement and the Enlightenment and Romanticism periods.
Culture shock is a common experience for expats and immigrants. Why don’t we discuss it in modern Britain? - Vicki Robinson
The little discussion of culture shock raises the question of how much the cultural elite really understand international experience. More analysis of the impact of culture shock is surely needed in our increasingly diverse society.
Deconstructing the UK BLM’s Central Claims - Zara Qureshi
From health to policing to employment, Black Lives Matter are only interested in a singular narrative of systemic racism.
What are the implications of BLM being a 'decentralised’ political movement? - Vicki Robinson
The cleverness of an apparently decentralised approach is that it makes people with disparate views feel they are part of the same movement. In reality, there is a big difference between someone who wants the police defunded and another who wants equality of opportunity. This raises concerns about whether more moderate iterations are being used as a smokescreen for a more radical agenda.
On Cultural Appropriation - Ajantha Ratnayaka
Adopting ‘foreign’ ideas, in whatever aspect of life, can enhance life, and the modifying of these ideas creates true progress.
The myth of racist police shootings - Bradley Strotten
An examination of the data and evidence in relation to police killings in America.
What is the best way to reassess important figures in British history? – Vicki Robinson
Do Hume’s views on race – typical of his day – really warrant the removal of his name from the tallest tower at the university? Do they cancel all the good that has come of his philosophy? There is a danger here of reducing people to their worst belief.
BAME? How about WALE: White and Liberal Entitled - Ajantha Ratnayaka
White liberals are determined to keep attention focused on slavery and colonisation as this keeps them at the centre of the debate. The history of non-white peoples around the world go back far further than that which involves interaction with European peoples.
Black History Month: Esteem and Fatigue - Daniel Ouka
When poorly executed in the classroom the constant joining of Black history with the theme of white supremacy not only runs the risk of inculcating a ‘we/them’ mentality in youngsters, but obscures other aspects of the history of people of African ancestry that would lend itself to building group esteem more effectively.
How Nature might help us to distinguish between good and bad ideas - Paul Regan
Interestingly, evolution and nature can provide us with a framework for how we can weed out bad ideas and distribute the good.
Three types of reactions to Kemi Badenoch’s Black History Month speech – Rahul Karnik
The contribution of Kemi Badenoch, the Minister of Equalities to a parliamentary debate discussing Black History Month, has gathered widespread support and some backlash. It is also arguably the first time that the government has taken an explicit stance on Critical Race Theory.
Is Britain a white supremacist society? - Bradley Strotten
If we are keen, then, to understand causes of racial disparities, we must be rigorous in our own investigations before mindlessly supporting facile narratives.
No, all politics isn’t identity politics - Brent Charlesworth
In the UK today, the gap has never been wider between the lived day-to-day reality of ordinary working people and the predilections of largely metropolitan-based bourgeois liberal political and media elites.
Reflections on Scottish nationalism and English identity - Vicki Robinson
Ethnic minority communities in Scotland often take on Scottish identity, this isn’t as common in England. Why is that?
How can we discuss privilege when there are now differing meanings of the word? – Vicki Robinson
Rather than stifle people with top-down meaning changes, it would be more effective to open people’s minds by focusing less on race.
An Introduction To Thomas Sowell - Mathew Lloyd
Thomas Sowell is a profoundly accomplished American economist and social commentator who offers an alternative, in-depth viewpoint to the mainstream narrative on race-related matters.
The paradox of mixed-race identity in critical race theory - Callum Breese
Critical Race Theory entraps individuals into an abyss of racial categories and thus encourages you to see through the paradigm of race, superseding the values of The Enlightenment, humanist thinking.
On White Fragility - Paul Scannell
Systems of thought that encourage an endlessly tabulated world of recrimination, guilt and blame merely reinforce what divides us, not what unites us.
White Guilt - Mark Cutting
People today have greater freedom, prosperity and security than ever before. There is no place for guilt, only positive mutual action.