EDI Dominoes Start to Fall
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- That’s Debatable!’ is the weekly podcast of the Free Speech Union. Hosts Tom Harris and Jan MacVarish - both staffers at the FSU - talk about the free speech controversies that have erupted in the past week. Please like, subscribe and share.
We briefly discuss last Saturday’s Manchester event on free expression in football, before moving on to a recent victory for workplace free speech that was reported in The Telegraph.
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has scrapped controversial plans to force its 32,000 members - including 15,000 student members and 46 partner universities - to "encourage diversity, equity and inclusion" in all aspects of their professional and personal lives. The Free Speech Union responded to both of the IFoA’s consultations on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and we take the opportunity to discuss the best strategies for tackling these kind of free speech codes in other contexts.
Also reported last week in The Telegraph, claims of ‘two-tier’ policing are, according to an internal Home Office report, an ‘extreme right-wing narrative’. We know about the Home Office report not because it was published, but because it was leaked to the think tank Policy Exchange, which rightly pointed out that some of the definitions of extremism threaten free speech, defining aspects of normal and legitimate political debate as extremist.
We end with Jan’s regular report on upcoming FSU events plus the good news of Toby Young’s introduction to the House of Lords on Tuesday 28th January, alongside the FSU’s Chairman, Lord Biggar.
I didn't know about the NCHI petition, i'll rush off & tell everybody i can. Thank you😊
Great work you guys are doing at the fsu. I am so glad you exist in this age of sanctimony and cancellation. Well deserved knighthood for Sir Toby too!
A link to the petition would be a useful addition imo.
Thank goodness
It’s already been sorted out without me having to get evolved it this bollocks intrigue
Hallelujah
I love you very much
From here in Thame
Very profound points about the withdrawal of the human right to anger (over the biggest outrage I can conceive - the mass, r cist butchering of CHILDREN).
Anger that would be expected and blessed in the Far Left's client communities.
As would the automatic assumption of racism had the races been reversed, regardless of evidence.
There is plenty of evidence in the Southport case, Jan. Most saliently his Wt Genocide rant.
"DEI isn't working. Let's call it 'EDI'"
A few years later: "EDI isn't working. Let's call it 'EID'"...
There was coverage on "The Mag" a Toon independent fanzine.
How do members access the members only videos? Or will the newsletter explain that?
Log in to our website, head to the Videos section and you should be able to view all the member-only content.
Extremely Destructive Ideas (EDI) should not be part of any code, quite the opposite.
Not in UK, they don't!
yet my friend, yet
Bourgeois Guardianista narcissists need their narcissistic supply otherwise it exposes the emptiness within their cluster B mindset.
You’re being very optimistic there. Trump doesn’t run the UK, unfortunately so DEI is still in full flood. 🇬🇧
The DEI virus came from the American lab.
The cure is coming from America too.
The virus came from America.
So can the cure.