Archive for category Race and Equality
The Macpherson Mindset
Posted by admin in Civil Liberty, Crime, Human Rights, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Race and Equality on 19/01/2012
Adrian Hart has written an insightful piece about the Macpherson report and its aftermath at this link.
Misleading claims about economic benefits of Equality Act are endangering jobs
Posted by Nick Cowen in Political Correctness, Press Release, Race and Equality on 03/01/2012
Contrary to government assurances, new equality rules will have no economic benefit and questionable impact on real inequality
As unemployment continues to grow, a new Civitas report reveals that new equality regulations threaten further job losses. The Equality Act 2010 introduced new duties on employers to protect disadvantaged groups from discrimination in the workplace and combines existing anti-discrimination law into one act. The Government’s official Impact Assessment of the Equality Act claimed that it would produce net economic benefits of £25-£87 million annually and increase access to jobs. But Assessing the Damage, by Nigel Williams, finds that the Government’s Assessment relied on a series of spurious assumptions, and that the more probable outcome is job destruction.
Equality law’s billion pound paper-shuffle
Posted by Nick Cowen in Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Press Release, Race and Equality on 28/11/2011
‘Equalities industry’ undermines true equality
As youth unemployment rises to record levels, a new Civitas report reveals that British workplaces spend up to a billion pounds a year complying with clumsy equality legislation. The costs put particular strain on public sector organisations, as well as making it more difficult for businesses to create and retain jobs. Furthermore, these policies have made jobs less accessible to disadvantaged, marginal workers.
The Rise of the Equalities Industry, by sociology professor Peter Saunders, examines the operation of Britain’s equality laws and concludes that they are seriously flawed.
Free for all
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Economics, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Politics, Race and Equality, Social Cohesion on 06/04/2011
The mudslinging has started, the rhetoric is now in full flow and the cries of hypocrisy have begun to get louder. Unpaid internships. What, oh what, are we to do? On the one hand, a valuable exercise and CV trophy, on the other, a period of being a wage-slave without even the wage. As Nick Clegg claims, are we undermining social mobility by offering unpaid internships? Probably not.
Open for business (unless you’re a man)
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Civil Liberty, Human Rights, Politics, Race and Equality on 06/12/2010
The Equality Act 2010 came into force on 1st October; however, not all provisions have been implemented. One provision which is being considered by the Government is the prohibition on ‘age discrimination in services and public functions’. This would extend the law prohibiting discrimination on characteristics other than age (sex, religion, race etc). I imagine that most people would accept this, I’m sure that most people agree that businesses should not discriminate in the provision of their services because of a person’s age, sex, religion etc. However, many pub landlords seem to disagree…
On What Planet Does Our Equalities Chief Reside?
Posted by David Conway in Politics, Race and Equality on 02/03/2010
‘For someone from my background, parliament is like a foreign institution and that needs to be changed…. We need to stop discriminating in favour of… white middle-class lawyers… Parliament is 20 per cent Oxbridge PPE graduates who come out of the City and law… [We] should require decision-makers to explain and publish information. We can crack this by talking about it and being transparent about the numbers…’
Thus reportedly said equalities tsar Trevor Phillips recently about what he claims to be the unduly narrow and unrepresentative character of the House of Commons in terms of race and class.