At his memorial service, Sengupta’s race or ethnicity was not mentioned in the moving and meaningful speeches I heard. The three other non-white journalists at the gathering noticed this, too.
How quickly it all happens. America sneezes, the British establishment rushes to it and its pestilences arrives on these shores. Years ago, it was manufactured panic imported from the US about political correctness: PC gone made!
The soul brothers are hacking and burning equality policies and institutions. Big tech bros joined in with indecent haste. As soon as Trump and Musk got their hands on power and began their assault on DEI, tech companies, in a massive U-turn, are now busily scrapping their initiatives, which they once so earnestly championed.
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Among the Trump establishment’s latest acts of cultural terrorism was the removal from the US defence website of a page on Jackie Robinson’s army career. Robinson of course is one of America’s greatest baseball players and a man who served in the Second World War. His page was taken down and “dei” added to the URL. The page has now been restored but the message was pretty clear.
America, home of the civil rights movement and fierce 20th century feminism, now feels increasingly like a white supremacist, aggressively male nation.
This frenzy is reaching our shores, mostly unnoticed, so far. In the financial sector, the UBS group of banks has dropped all initiatives to get women and minorities up into key jobs.
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Read MoreVictoria Symons, partner at Cripps, the financial law firm, has hit back: “Our public bodies should not be so easily swayed by the prevailing wind from across the Atlantic… that guidance was originally brought in after an enquiry which evidenced sexual harassment and misogyny in the City… Today, women in all industries continue to face pay disparity and unequal access to opportunities. Businesses need greater engagement, not less.”
What we don’t need is cowardly obeisance to the will of an American tyrant and his deputy. Wake up. Stand up for DEI.
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A conversation I had this week
Every March I miss my mum, Jena, terribly. It’s the month she died, many years back. I go to the mosque where she prayed. This time a fellow worshipper said, “Jena could talk to an angry cobra and cool him down”.
That Christmas, a card was dropped in her letterbox. “Merry Christmas,” it said, “from Ben and Chris and all.”
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