National Trust is accused of recruiting ‘biased’ team of academics to probe its properties links to empire and the slave trade Colonial Countryside projects looks into links of 11 trust properties to slave trade The project involves nine historians working with 100 primary school children However, the National Trust has come under fire for the … Read more
National Trust is accused of recruiting ‘biased’ team of academics to probe its properties links to empire and the slave trade Colonial Countryside projects looks into links of 11 trust properties to slave trade The project involves nine historians working with 100 primary school children However, the National Trust has come under fire for the … Read more
Female BBC staff past and present reacted with fury yesterday after the equality watchdog found no unlawful pay discrimination against women at the corporation. Former BBC presenter Carrie Gracie, who was at the heart of a huge equal pay row, branded the verdict by the Equality and Human Rights Commission a ‘whitewash’. The EHRC was … Read more
The BBC’s new political drama Roadkill was today slammed for its ‘left-wing bias’ as calls grew for a new chairman who will stop the broadcaster ‘disappearing in a puff of woke smoke’. The drama sees Hugh Laurie playing corrupt Tory government minister Peter Laurence, who in the first episode is seen lying in court during … Read more
Over the weekend, Twitter exploded with discussions over racial bias. According to some Twitter users, the micro-social site exhibits racial bias in photo previews. It’s not clear what’s been happening but apparently, Twitter favors white faces over blacks or darker ones. Many people have shared their “experiments” while others were also trying to provide explanations. … Read more
BBC hold ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session with on-air talent ahead of the new football season with phrases such as ‘nitty gritty’, ‘sold down the river’ and ‘blackballed’ put on a banned list The BBC held an ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session with their on-air talent The purpose of the session was to avoid using … Read more
BBC hold ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session with on-air talent ahead of the new football season with phrases such as ‘nitty gritty’, ‘sold down the river’ and ‘blackballed’ put on a banned list The BBC held an ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session with their on-air talent The purpose of the session was to avoid using … Read more
MPs will be given lessons on woke language and history by consultants who declared the words ‘lady’ and ‘pensioner’ to be offensive. Parliament has paid Challenge Consultancy £7,000 to design a course on ‘unconscious bias’ for MPs. In total the company, which has also trained BBC staff, has raked in nearly £800,000 from Parliament for … Read more
MPs will be given lessons on woke language and history by consultants who declared the words ‘lady’ and ‘pensioner’ to be offensive. Parliament has paid Challenge Consultancy £7,000 to design a course on ‘unconscious bias’ for MPs. In total the company, which has also trained BBC staff, has raked in nearly £800,000 from Parliament for … Read more
Facebook ‘ignored racial bias research’: Former employees claim the tech giant is ‘failing’ and ‘hurting people at scale’ Whistleblowers claim they told superiors their new system is racially biased Research found black people’s accounts were 50% more likely to be disabled They were allegedly told to keep the findings quiet and to stop any further … Read more