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The vast majority of BBC employees are horrible bigots in need of an intervention from trained Big Woke professionals. What else can one conclude about the BBC’s newly released Diversity and Inclusion Plan for the next two years?
The plan includes mandatory unconscious bias training, encourages voluntary reporting of employees’ social class and sexual orientation and offers ambitious short-term quotas based on race and gender. Not creepy at all.
The BBC will require 95% of its employees to take an unconscious bias training course in order to help staff “develop self-awareness” and gain an “understanding of the impact” they have on fellow employees.
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Now that John Humphrys has called it a day, I’ll never get the chance to be quizzed by him on Mastermind.
Pity. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve wondered what my specialist subject would be. Motown B-sides of the 1960s, maybe. The lyrics of Warren Zevon.
Minder, 1979-1994. The inside story of the great Transport and General Workers’ Union ballot rigging scandal, 1985.
As chairman of the Useless Information Society, a distinguished position I inherited from the late Keith Waterhouse, I am a veritable repository of worthless trivia.
For instance, my encyclopaedic knowledge of old British television series is fairly extensive, as regular readers can attest.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: When actress Sienna Miller split from her fiance four months ago, she returned from New York to London to be comforted by her older sister, Savannah.