<strong>Letters: </strong>Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article about the power of political activism, and the threat of the policing bill to our liberty
Oxford and Cambridge Universities have been blasted for spending £10,000 on controversial unconscious and implicit biased training.
The elite institutions spent the eye-watering total teaching staff to understand how our biases influence the decisions we make , new figures show.
Oxford has spent £1,000 per year on implicit bias training since it was first introduced in August 2015.
But Cambridge spent a staggering £5,000 setting up its course for staff between 2016 and 2017, a Freedom of Information request revealed.
The Free Speech Union slammed the expensive ideological snake oil spoon fed by people who would have struggled to get into Cambridge themselves .
It comes after a landmark review into racial inequality urged for unconscious bias training to be scrapped for workers and replaced with more effective practices.
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Campaigners on violence against women who have been galvanised by the strength of feeling around the killing of Sarah Everard are highlighting a number of amendments to the domestic abuse bill that is passing through the House of Lords.
What amendments are peers voting on in the Lords on Monday?
Peers have made a number of amendments to the bill that tackle violence against women and misogyny. If they pass, the bill could return to the Commons to be considered by MPs.
Two key measures that campaigners have backed included:
Making misogyny a hate crime, which would give tougher sentencing where misogyny is a factor as well as allowing police to keep better data on what crimes have misogyny as an aggravating factor.