Oxford dons have accused the university of allowing political diversity to “wither away” after its head of equality celebrated the Belgian police’s attempt to shut down a conservative conference.
With its centuries-old customs and peculiar vocabulary, the University of Oxford can seem to outsiders like a bastion of tradition. Many of its long-standing rituals are still embraced by students and academics today: the wearing of gowns to formal hall dinners, say; or the May Morning celebrations. When it comes to other traditions, some think it’s time for a change.
Scotland’s crisis-hit NHS is accused of wasting millions of pounds on “flim-flam and mumbo-jumbo” after its diversity and equality staff numbers soared by more than 40 per cent in five years.
The BBC shells out at least £600,000 and possibly up to a million on diversity and inclusion staff. Local councils also spend profligately on this nonsense as do many other institutions.
The economics prize closes the prestigious Nobel awards season on Monday, with specialists on credit, the job market or inequalities expected to be among the contenders.Of all the Nobels, the economics prize has the fewest number of women who have won, with just two since it was first awarded in 1969 Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019.