Spiked editor Brendan O’Neill has torn into BBC Creative Diversity Director June Sarpong for lecturing poor, working-class white people on their “privilege,” saying she did this despite being “pampered” and highly-paid herself. Appearing on the talkRADIO show with Kevin O’Sullivan on Sunday, O’Neill responded to Sarpong’s claims that even low-income …
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Birmingham City Council demolished the old Birmingham City University campus in 2018 to regenerate the Perry Barr area ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. As well as developing infrastructure for the games, the council set to work building the first of 5,000 new homes. And, in the spirit of democracy, …
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It “shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating in the Federal workforce or in the Uniformed Services, and not to allow grant funds to be used for these purposes,” Trump said in an executive order signed on Tuesday evening While the order does not …
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The American academy, once deemed “the envy of the world” by some, is anything but that. Far from the bastion of robust intellectual inquiry for the production and transmission of knowledge and wisdom, the American academy is a veritable indoctrination camp for activism and an echo chamber that allows only …
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As a result of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, new standards of representation and inclusion have been announced and will likely come into effect at the 96th Academy Awards in 2024. Victor Hugo once stated, ‘Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent …
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The new standards were handed down on Tuesday, establishing rules for the 2024 Oscars which were designed to “better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience,” the Academy said in a statement, though noted they would apply only the Best Picture category. “The aperture must widen to reflect our diverse …
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