This article is dedicated to late Professor BM Mayosi.
At South African tertiary institutions, all employees – both black and white – lived in terror of it.
It was (and still is) at the very least a career limiting indictment and, at worst, it could mean public disgrace or suicide. This fear is the fear of being (falsely) accused of racism or being associated with any form of white supremacy.
An academic’s view on why the UCU is wrong to use ‘pay gaps’ to justify strike action I will not be participating in the forthcoming university strikes and am not a member of the University and College Union (UCU) which is organising them. However, I see that one of the…
Anyone who has read me knows full well that I can’t bear the identitarian politics bandwagon and increasingly I’ve been arguing this is a middle class issue. This is a personal monologue and will need refining over time but for the time being this is what I think it’s all…
The England manager is the best since Sir Alf Ramsey but his flirtation with identity politics is a problem and risks undermining his position. England manager Gareth Southgate has recently said there are not “enough” women working for him. His comments were made at the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention…
Medical research seldom shoulders the burden of such hope and faith as it does today. Widely considered to be our greatest asset in our current predicament, its success has relied on a noble attempt to recruit the brightest in society, regardless of background. To deviate from such a custom would,…
The CRED report is a brave but necessary one in terms of education, a field in which too often policy changes are advanced based on gross generalisations made from anecdotal evidence and experience and unevidenced assertions about what is taught.
The High Court has ruled that the government’s policy of allowing pubs only to serve alcohol with ‘substantial meals’ may have been discriminatory against ethnic minorities. Judge Richard Pearce ruled: ‘It is arguable that a policy which permits drinking alcohol with a meal in licensed premises but does not permit…
Review of Paul Embery, Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021 June 23rd 2016 marked a political earthquake in the UK as the country voted to leave the European Union despite the domestic and international establishments warning that such an outcome would be an…