“Affirmative Action”

The quest for diversity for diversity’s sake enfeebles the NHS, the police and the Armed Forces – which makes it a matter of life and death

A friend who is a hospital consultant has been warning me for a while about NHS “diversity” hiring, which means doctors and nurses trained here in the UK are often rejected in favour of less well-qualified medics from overseas. It gets worse. Twenty-five years ago, when Amir did his training, it was extremely competitive to get into medicine in India. Indian doctors were the best of the best, my friend says, even recalling with pride the high ranking he had among thousands of applicants. Today, rich parents can just buy a medical school place for their kids, some of them none too bright. “Everything has a price tag,” Amir says. “Not just undergraduate degrees; postgraduate degrees as well.”

With race-based appointments to academic jobs in Canada now common, it should not be surprising that there are business opportunities embedded in them, and it is notable that a new search consultancy has entered and risen in the field: BIPOC Executive Search Inc., based in Toronto. The firm has a team of 15 and specializes in the recruitment of Black, Indigenous and racialized candidates. It has current job postings for 12 executive positions at three Toronto universities (York, U of T and OCAD), and no doubt the promise of many more as Canadian universities rush to make race-based appointments to their academic and administrative ranks. With a 15-member team, BIPOC Inc. needs plenty of work to meet payroll.

Since the summer of Black Lives Matter, a peculiar double standard has emerged in casting

Congratulations to Ncuti Gatwa, the star of Doctor Who, on landing an exciting new role. He’s been cast in Born with Teeth, a Royal Shakespeare Company play about the relationship between the Bard and his fellow Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Mr Gatwa says the play is “like no version of Shakespeare and Marlowe that I’ve ever seen before”.

I can well believe it. Not least because Mr Gatwa is to play Marlowe. Who, like most people in England in the early 1590s, was white.

The Gates Foundation says it will end racial exclusion in its flagship college-aid initiative, the Gates Scholarship. As of Sunday afternoon, the foundation’s website still describes the program as being limited to high-school seniors who are “from at least one of the following ethnicities: African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian & Pacific Islander American, and/or Hispanic American.” But in a statement to the Journal late Friday afternoon, a spokesperson said “it has been decided to expand eligibility to all Pell Grant-eligible students”—i.e., those with low incomes, regardless of race.

The Federal Court has dismissed a proposed $2.5-billion class action lawsuit alleging systemic anti-Black racism against public service workers in the federal government.

After five years of legal arguments, the court agreed with a government request to reject the lawsuit without the merits of the complaint being argued or adjudicated at a trial.

DEI by Lawsuit.

Two prestigious Ivy League institutions are among over 50 universities targeted by the US Department of Education for alleged discrimination against white students.

On Friday, the DoED announced the sprawling investigations, accusing reputable institutions like Cornell and Yale universities, of using ‘racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities.’

The federal department’s Office of Civil Rights said that 45 schools, particularly with their graduate programs, acted in violation to the 1964 Civil Rights Act by partnering with The PhD Project.