Well, I’m back from the paid work, Terven. There is a backlog of reports so I am going to split this into two parts.
Onwards with the Marlowe season and this time we have Humphrey Bogart as Raymond Chandler’s smart talking private detective. So we’re back with the solo hero up against the establishment. As ever with Chandler, the plot is just too convoluted to even make an attempt at it apart from to say that, right at the beginning, Marlowe is employed by a certain General Sternwood and the scene below is his first visit to the General’s mansion where he meets one of the General’s daughters, Vivian Rutledge (Lauren Bacall).
When I was young I wished I could do Marlowe’s one liners:
Next time I’ll come on stilts, wear a white tie and carry a tennis racket.
DEI
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Sounds lovely and cuddly doesn’t it? I’m sure we are all in favour of equality of opportunity but the DEI Departments in institutions, organisations and government departments go far, far beyond that laudable aim. As EDI Jester never tires of telling us, they are the engines for inculcating gender ideology and critical race theory. Several of today’s reports refer to this issue .
Sacked Teacher
Yet another ongoing case and the teacher in question, Mr Sutcliffe is now relying on the Government’s own draft ‘transgender’ schools guidance. Thanks to a wonderful reader for drawing this to my attention.
Connor Stringer in The Mail Online ( Teacher who was banned from teaching for 'misgendering' female pupil who identified as a boy will use the Government's new transgender guidance for schools appeal decision 21 January) reports:
A Christian teacher is set to use the Government's new transgender guidance for schools in his landmark legal challenge against a teaching ban imposed for 'misgendering' a girl.
Joshua Sutcliffe was banned by the Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA) in May last year after he failed to use the preferred pronouns of a female student who identified as a boy.
It also said he had been 'unprofessional' for sharing his Christian beliefs in a class.
But Mr Sutcliffe says he has now been 'vindicated' by the Government's long-awaited guidelines on how schools should deal with transgender pupils, published in December.
It states: 'No teacher or pupil should be compelled to use these preferred pronouns and it should not prevent teachers from referring to children collectively as girls or boys, even in the presence of a child that has been allowed to change pronouns.'
Joshua Sutcliffe
Cherwell School, a state secondary in Oxford
In light of this official advice, lawyers for the former maths teacher have launched a High Court appeal against his teaching ban on the grounds that the TRA's ruling was 'perverse' and made without authority.
Mr Sutcliffe's ban is based on events that date back to 2017 when he was sacked from Cherwell School, a state secondary in Oxford, after praising a group of students during a maths lesson by saying: 'Well done, girls.'
The 33-year-old admitted he failed to use the preferred male pronouns of a trans pupil, but he claimed this was unintentional and he apologised immediately.
He told The Mail on Sunday: 'I feel vindicated by the guidance, but this means nothing if my ban is not overturned.
To continue to be barred from the profession I love in light of the draft guidance would be another of the many injustices I have had to face for expressing my Christian beliefs.
'In 2017 there was no guidance on these issues. Schools were taking guidance from Stonewall, not the Government or experts.'
Andrea Williams, of the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting Mr Sutcliffe, said: 'We can't underestimate the chilling impact the ruling has. Teachers are intimidated into silence for fear of losing their jobs if they say something with which the regulator disagrees.'
The DfE did not respond to a request for comment last night.
Stonewall advice to schools
And why may some schools be making these appalling discriminatory decisions? Could it be that they are following the Stonewall guidance?
George Bunn in GB News ( 'Woke' demands from LGBT+ group sees schools urged to stop saying 'boys and girls' 22 January) reports:
More than 300 schools are signed up to a scheme telling them to stop calling pupils boys and girls.
Primary schools, secondary schools and nurseries teaching children as young as two receive awards from the LGBT+ charity Stonewall if they “remove any unnecessarily gendered language” from the classroom.
The charity requests schools to use "they" instead of he or she and "children" or "young people" instead of boys and girls.
There is also guidance promoting the instillation of gender-neutral toilets and making both boys and girls wear the same uniforms.
Stonewall’s new annual report reveals that at least 300 schools in England are still signed up to its "champions scheme".
The charity has defended the scheme saying that young LGBT+ people should grow up in a environment where they feel "safe and supported".
However, it has been criticised by Conservative MPs, who called for a blacklist of organisations like Stonewall.
Conservative MP Nick Fletcher, who sits on the Commons education select committee, told the Mail On Sunday: "The Education Act is clear that partisan and ideological material should not be promoted in our schools.
Nick Fletcher© GB News
He added: "Surely Stonewall continually promoting the unscientific and highly contentious idea of ‘gender identity’ is exactly this.
"Is it time for the government to draw up a blacklist of organisations that ignore these Education Act provisions and who therefore should not be used by our schools?"
The full article is here:
The Charity Industrial Complex
Here is the first DEI report care of wonderful Feminist Legal Clinic and this concerns New Zealand.
YVONNE VAN DONGEN: The charity industrial complex – Point of Order (24 January)
In a bid to be seen as a safe and welcoming employer, organisations have signed on for workshops run by non-profits that offer a tick or accreditation.
For an initial cost followed by an annual renewal fee, an organisation can earn a rainbow tick, gender tick, cultural intelligence tick, wellbeing tick, health tick, accessibility tick, domestic violence free tick, the pride pledge and/or a brain badge. Some charities do not offer ticks but promise accreditation in the diversity, equality and inclusion space.
The charity industrial complex in this country is thriving.
In the last financial year Diversity Works (DW), formerly The Equal Employment Opportunities Trust, had a total annual income of over $2m earned through donations, fund-raising and the like and over $700k providing services. Coca Cola, Internal Affairs, the Public Services Commission and Te Puni Kokiri have been through a DW programme.
Their fees are advertised as $2400 for evaluation which includes an evidence assessment, a practical assessment and an interview. Annual professional registration is $275.
The sexuality and gender space is represented by many groups. Not all offer ticks or accreditation. Some offer membership or simply education. Most promote the unscientific falsehoods inherent in gender ideology such as sex is mutable and there are more than two sexes. In other words, transwomen are women.
This unscientific advice doesn’t come cheap.
Rainbow Tick (RT) is probably the most well-known of the rainbow accrediting organisations. Over 100 organisations have the RT certification, organisations as diverse as Auckland Grammar, Ministry for the Environment, MinterEllisonRuddWatts, the New Zealand Intelligence Community, the New Zealand Rugby Union and Z Energy.
RT now belongs to Kāhui Tū Kaha, a Ngāti Whātua-owned not-for-profit. In the last financial year Kāhui Tū Kaha earned over $82m.
The ideology promoted by these gender and sexuality education organisations has been rejected by most New Zealanders. Polls showed that a majority of respondents did not support the introduction of sex self-ID in law. Most of the submissions to the select committee were also against the law change.
Readers may remember that one of the qualms an Auckland museum staff member raised about hosting the Fantastic Beasts show was that it might have an impact on the museum’s Rainbow Tick. (The Spinoff, Dec 13, 2023) The museum eventually opted for not hosting a show that would have been immensely popular and earned it considerable income.
Charities that promote propaganda can be deregistered. The promotion of propaganda was behind the deregistering of Family First, a conservative family advocacy group. Brian Tamaki’s Destiny Church was removed from the register for failing to file returns.
Source: YVONNE VAN DONGEN: The charity industrial complex – Point of Order
Common Purpose
And here’s the next DEI report.
Dr Matt Treacy in Gript News ( COMMON PURPOSE: WHO ARE THE SMALL ELITE NGO WITH SERIOUS CLOUT? 22 January) reports:
According to the thumbnail supplied to the Charity Regulator, Common Purpose Ireland is just another “not-for-profit organisation that brings together people from a wide range of backgrounds to help them become more effective leaders in society.”
In pursuit of that, it claims that its programmes help to “bring together people from very different backgrounds and sectors who might otherwise never meet.” Not unless, of course, they happened to be hanging around Áras an Uachtaráin [ Dusty - official residence of the President of Ireland] waiting for a consultation with the Prez as a member of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC).
Members of Common Purpose do not generally broadcast their affiliation but we do know that one current member of the IHREC, Salome Mbugua (who is also CEO of AkiDwA), is a current trustee of Common Purpose.
Heidi Foster Breslin is a former Chairperson of Common Purpose and was appointed by President Higgins to the IHREC for a five-year term that ended in 2023. Breslin was previously CEO of Katherine Zappone’s An Cosán, which if nothing else launched the career of Senator Lynn Ruane.
There would not be too many small anonymous NGOs who have had two of their members appointed by the President to such a prestigious body. As we shall see, it certainly punches above its weight and Common Purpose was also allowed the free use of a state building at 31-35 Bow Street, Dublin, for 17 years.
This is an extraordinary situation that only seemingly came to an end when it was highlighted by Gript through Freedom of Information requests that were never actually finally properly answered, and through Parliamentary Questions from Rural Independent TD Carol Nolan.
Indeed, the B1C annual return of Common Purpose filed with the Companies Registration Office last September (which it was noted was late) gives Bow Street as the address where their register of members is kept.
In common with other NGOs which seek, successfully it has to be said, to influence the doings of the malleable elite of the Irish state – Advance HE who have ultimate responsibility for the Athena SWAN “equality and diversity” programme being another – Common Purpose are basically the Irish section of a UK company.
That UK company has impressive connections to ruling circles and state patronage, as is also the case with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue which continues the long history of Brit oversight of the Paddies and Patsys.
Common Purpose was founded in 1989 by Julia Middleton – who had a background as a co-founder of DEMOS along with Martin Jaques former editor of Marxism Today, the journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Jacques is the author of When China Rules the World, and is one of the foremost apologists for the Chinese Communist Party. DEMOS was regarded as a key ideological component of the Labour Party under Tony Blair.
Common Purpose pursues an ostensibly social democratic vision with much reference to diversity and inclusion, and its clear focus is on building influence among the public sector and NGOs. The former Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, is a graduate of Common Purpose courses. Some of the police officers and social services managers in Rotherham at the time of the widespread rape of children were graduates of Common Purpose training courses.
Common Purpose was also criticised during the 2012 Levenson Inquiry into the British press, and as a consequence of this influence, attention was paid to how Common Purpose had managed to build such strong links to the state with one person describing it as “The Left’s version of the old boys’ network.”
Reference was made to the fact that in a five year period prior to 2012, that British government departments, as well as various police services and the BBC had spent well over £1,000,000 on courses provided by Common Purpose.
When you try to access the Common Purpose (Ireland) accounts, you are linked to the overall UK company accounts. Interestingly, that has not always been the case with Common Purpose (Ireland.) Their 2020 financial statement provides a summary of their income here of €219,834. In contrast if you follow the link to the 2022 accounts, you are directed to the UK company’s accounts which show an income of more than £4 million, and a workforce of more than 80. There is no separate accounting of the Irish operation.
The 2020 accounts were audited by KPMG but they resigned as auditors to take effect from October 2023, as notified to the Companies Registration Office.
Common Purpose have filed accounts with the Charity Regulator for 2022 which show that they had an income of €274,082 and that they employed 4 people here. They claimed that all of their income came from “trading and commercial activities,” which presumably includes payments for the provision of the sort of training sessions for the staff of Government departments which they have been involved in over the past decade.
A PQ from Carol Nolan TD in 2021 ascertained that Common Purpose had been paid over €300,000 for such training. Such training is nothing to do with computer skills or preventing punch ups at the water fountain. It is, as is the Athena SWAN programme in EDI, designed to impart “values” that are intimately connected to Common Purpose’s origins within the British Labour left.
That ideological dimension is confirmed not only by the organisation’s history in the UK, but in the profile of some of its “alumni” here, such as the former Labour mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland. Gilliland was an equality officer with the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) where she specialised in LGBT+ issues and is now working for the EU Committee of the Regions.
As with much of the Woke left, Common Purpose’s establishment here was backed not by lads and lasses who worked down pit or at the till in Dunnes, but by persons well known in both the business and NGO sectors. The original 1996 subscribers and directors listed on its Constitution include Gillian Bowler of Budget Travel and Clive Brownlee of Guinness.
William Earley, Paul Heffernan and Alan Fitzpatrick of McCann Fitzgerald were also on the list, and the corporate law company is based at the same Riverside address as Common Purpose.
The other subscribers were Gary McCann of Aer Lingus and Hugh Frazer then of the Combat Poverty Agency who later worked with the EU Commission and then became a Professor of Social Studies at Maynooth.
None of the above are still directors. One of the original directors was Phil Flynn who has been Vice President of Sinn Féin and President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU.)
In 2005, Flynn, who was then a director of the Bank of Scotland, had his office raided by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) in connection with the investigation into IRA finances, though no charges were brought against him. Since then Flynn has been a director of Sport against Racism, as well as several Ballyfermot based community and private companies.
The current secretary of Common Purpose, Carol Conway, has also been a director of The Wheel. Other directors include:
Joseph Ruane who is a manager with the HSE and formerly worked with the NHS in the north; Jack Kavanagh has his own company involved in “other human health activities;” Fiona Keane had a translation business which appears to have been dissolved; Salome Mbuga of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and AkiDwA is now also a director of Women’s Aid.
Orla Cunningham has moved from banking to the NGO world and was a director of the Atlantic Philanthropies funded Children’s Rights Alliance. She is now a director of the Trinity Online Services attached to the University. Tavengwa Tavengwa is a partner at the extremely Woke corporate giant Ernst and Young and is also a director of the Effernock Estate Owners Management Company.
Sarah Suzanne Bean is a strategic advisor at COTY a multibillion dollar cosmetics company which is one of key partners in Global Citizen, a heavy hitting NGO devoted to eliminating poverty through the “lens of intersectionality.” Simon Davies is the other director and chairperson of the trustees.
Liberals were once fond of demanding to know who in Irish public life had associations with Catholic organisations such as the Knights of Columbanus. In a spirit of reconciliation and equity, would it not be nice to know who else in positions of prominence are members or “alumni” of this liberal group?
We will continue to perform our modest part in providing you with this information, on all fronts.
Great work, Gript!
Know Your Privilege
And here’s a lovely DEI training package! Ireland again!
Fatima Gunning in Gript News (PTSB INSTRUCTS STAFF TO “KNOW YOUR PRIVILEGE” IN MANDATORY “DEI AWARENESS COURSE” 22 January) reports:
Financial institution PTSB – which emerged from the merger of Irish Permanent and TSB Bank -has introduced a mandatory ‘diversity, equality, and inclusion’ (DEI) training module for staff which instructs them to “know your privilege” and says that those who have white skin have inherent advantages over those who do not, Gript Media can reveal.
The training document seen by Gript is based on the work of American author and activist Ijeoma Oulo and features references to BeLongto board member Aisling Gannon, and trans-identified male psychotherapist Rhea Askins.
The document instructs readers to, “Recall that privilege refers to the benefits you have simply because you belong to a certain social group where those same benefits are denied to others because they belong to another, often marginalised, group.”
“You cannot get rid of your own privilege, but you can acknowledge it and use it to advocate for others.” it says.
It instructs PTSB staff to work out their own level of ‘privilege’ by referring to a ‘privilege wheel’ “adapted” from the work of James R. Vanderwoerd’s Web of Oppression and Sylvia Duckworth’s Wheel of Power/Privilege.
The chart sets out that those with “white” skin have the most “power” while those with “dark” skin have the least.
“Cisgender men” are also in a position of “power” where “cisgender women” come in second place and “trans, intersex, nonbinary” people are ranked as the least powerful.
“Heterosexual” people are also the closest to “power” where “gay men” are in the middle and “lesbians, bisexual, pansexual, asexual” people are last.
The document says that while “74% of PTSB respondents say they know what unconscious bias is,” that “only half believe they have unconscious biases.”
“We hope that this DEI Awareness course will help you develop your understanding of unconscious bias – if you truly understand it, then you know that you have it!” it says
The bank says it ‘appreciates diversity in language and communication style’ saying that the use of “inclusive language” means “avoiding offensive and negative expressions that imply ideas that may be sexist, racist, or otherwise biased or prejudiced to or excludes a group of people.”
[Y]ou need to be aware of your own biases and stereotypes as these may influence your actions and language choice.” it says
The document warns against the use of ‘gendered language’ telling staff to avoid using sex based pronouns when referring to eg. “The lady in the blue shirt” instructing that “gender neutral and inclusive” language like “the person in the blue shirt” should be used.
Staff are also told to avoid using collective greetings like “ladies and gentlemen” and are instead told to use terms such as “Hi everyone”.
The document also instructs staff “make sure” to “use they/them” in reference to ‘non-binary’ people, and to ask for preferred pronouns when unsure.
It says “all colleges are encouraged to add their pronouns to their email signature.”
A chapter entitled “Navigating gender identity in the LQBTG+ community: parents’ perspective”, recalls an ‘in person panel discussion’ where Aisling Gannon of BeLongto and a PTSB employee discuss their experience of being the parents of “transgender children”.
This event was held during ‘pride month’ and hosted by PRISM: PTSB’s employee resource group for LGBTQ+ “colleagues and allies”.
The document features excerpts from the discussion where a PTSB employee discusses bringing his 15-year-old “son” to get glasses where he asked her if she would consider “getting eye surgery once he stopped growing,”
The staff member related the teenager replying, “Dad, have you considered that I have more pressing surgeries ahead of me than just fixing my eyes,” in what appears to be a reference to female-to-male gender reassignment surgery.
Oh, dear, my assistant had to proof read all of this section!
However, he cheered up when he watched the following 🤣
Civil Service
Meanwhile some sign of a fightback - though seeing will be believing!
Will Hazell in The Telegraph ( Crackdown on ‘activists’ in the Civil Service 20 January) reports:
John Glen© Provided by The Telegraph
The Government will crack down on civil servants accused of wasting taxpayers’ money on diversity “activism”, The Telegraph can disclose.
John Glen, the Cabinet Office minister, has ordered a review of Whitehall diversity networks and a “refresh” of civil service impartiality guidance to stop officials “using their jobs as a vehicle for political activism”.
Under plans discussed with Kemi Badenoch, the Equalities Minister, and Esther McVey, the “minister for common sense”, diversity meetings would have to be held before work, during lunch breaks or in the evenings.
The full article is here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/crackdown-on-activists-in-the-civil-service/ar-BB1h0bgW
Here is EDI Jester’s jubilant take on it 😊
White Privilege
Of course a political party won’t need a DEI department if the whole organisation has turned into a DEI department!
Archie Mitchell in The Independent ( Labour backs idea of teaching children about white privilege 22 January) reports:
Thangam Debbonaire ( smirking at a white person?) © PA
Labour has backed the idea of teaching children about white privilege with a shadow minister saying it is a “good idea”.
Shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire said children need “the opportunity to ask difficult questions sometimes of our nation’s history”, insisting it would not be “undermining” Britain.
She was asked about children’s charity Barnado’s, which was criticised for publishing a “guide for parents” about white privilege.
The term refers to inherent advantages possessed by white people over non-white people on the basis of their race, with examples including a lower likelihood of being stopped and searched by police.
The Barnado’s guide encouraged parents to “start the conversation with others who are interested and willing to learn” and to “teach your white friends, family and colleagues about their privilege”.
Ms Debonnaire was asked whether she supported the guide, and told BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme: “We need education that allows children the opportunity to question, to ask difficult questions sometimes of our nation’s history.
"That’s a strong country that’s able to look at itself and its history and say ‘are there things we could have done differently? Are there things we regret? Are there even things that we’re sorry about?
“But also are there things we can learn so that we make a stronger, better country for the future?”
Ms Debbonaire went on to say that “encouraging children to be questioning is a good idea” and is “part of any really good education”.
The full article is here:
Stop Press
This is also turning into a Jester Special 😊
Thanks to a wonderful reader for alerting me to a new post from Barry detailing how the Governor of Oklahoma is introducing legislation that will effectively banish DEI from organisations in the State. Just what is needed. It will also encourage the return of meritocracy. Can we have some of that over here as well, please!
Stop Press 2
I have now come across an Epoch Times piece where Elon Musk attacks DEI and supports meritocracy. I love “any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book” - brilliant!
Aaron Pan ( Elon Musk: DEI Discriminatory and Fundamentally Anti-Semitic 23 January) reports:
Elon Musk said that he believes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies inherently involve discrimination and are “fundamentally anti-Semitic,” amid the growing anti-Semitism in major Western cities and on college campuses.
In an interview with commentator Ben Shapiro on Jan. 22 at the European Jewish Association Conference in Poland, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) said people should “always be wary of any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book.”
“Diversity, equity, inclusion, these all sound like nice words. But what it really means is discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and sexual orientation, and it’s against merit,” Mr. Musk said. “Thus, I think, [it] is fundamentally anti-Semitic.”
During the interview, Mr. Musk noted that the solution to address this DEI problem is for universities to focus on merit. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a man, [or] woman, what race you are, what beliefs you have. What matters is how good are you at your job or what are your skills?” he said.
The full article is here:
Jo Phoenix
Thanks to Jo Phoenix for bringing us some really excellent news after all that DEI b****cks!
Haroon Siddique in The Guardian ( Open University academic wins tribunal case over gender-critical views 22 January) reports:
A professor of criminology, who was compared with “a racist uncle at the Christmas table” because of her gender critical beliefs, has won an unfair dismissal claim against the Open University.
Prof Jo Phoenix, a lesbian who set up the Gender Critical Research Network (GCRN) at the OU, was also found to have suffered victimisation and harassment, as well as direct discrimination.
She becomes the latest in a series of gender critical feminists, who believe sex is biological, immutable and should be prioritised over gender identity, to win employment tribunals.
In a judgment published on Monday, the tribunal found that Prof Louise Westmarland, head of discipline in social policy and criminology at the OU, made the “racist uncle” comment, which amounted to harassment, because she was unhappy about Phoenix signing a letter in the Sunday Times registering disquiet over a perceived inappropriately close relationship between the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall and UK universities, and about her expressing her gender critical beliefs at a Woman’s Place UK talk.
The tribunal panel, led by Judge Jennifer Young, found that Westmarland “was effectively telling the claimant off for having expressed gender critical beliefs”.
“Prof Westmarland knew that likening the claimant to a racist was upsetting for the claimant. We conclude that its purpose was to violate the claimant’s dignity because inherent in the comment is an insult of being put in the same category as racists”.
The panel found instances of direct discrimination including the prohibition of Phoenix from speaking at departmental meetings about her experiences of being treated in detrimental ways because of her gender critical beliefs or talking about her gender critical research. Additionally there was “silence and lack of praise” motivated by her gender critical beliefs when she obtained a C$1m grant while another colleague was praised just for making a grant application, according to the tribunal.
After Phoenix set up the GCRN, 368 of her colleagues signed an open letter calling for the disaffiliation of the group, which it labelled transphobic, from the OU because of the beliefs of its members. OU did not take action to ask those behind the letter, published in a Google Doc, to take it down and the tribunal said this was harassment, having “a chilling effect on the claimant expressing her gender critical beliefs and carrying out gender critical research”. A statement about the GCRN in a similar vein to the open letter was published on the university’s website by the wellbeing, education and language studies faculty/reproduction, sexualities and sexual health research group. There were also tweets and retweets from colleagues about the GCRN.
Phoenix resigned from the OU in December 2021. The tribunal found that she was constructively unfairly dismissed because the university breached the implied terms of trust and confidence in her employment contract and the duty to provide her with a suitable working environment. Remedies will be determined at a later date.
Congratulations, Jo 😎
The full article is here:
The full judgment is here:
Robinson’s Bar
Glinner and 22 others (including a gay man who was assaulted by a member of staff) were excluded from this bar in Belfast due to their gender critical views. This was following the Let Women Speak event in Belfast. They are now looking to take a tribunal case against the Bar. Please consider giving to their crowd funder:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/assaulted-and-refused-service/
Endpiece
Couple of pieces for you!
From Phillip Marlowe to Inspector Clouseau.
And photo of the year so far from Sydney!!
Thanks to LGB Alliance Australia🤣
Thanks as ever Dusty, not just for all the info but for the laugh out loud moments. Your assistant is demonstrating how we all feel at some of the awful things we have to read about and what a perfect picture to finish with. 😁
A very comprehensive update, Dusty. The jester reported this morning on an executive order from the state governor of Oklahoma banning DEI completely from all public institutions. Hooray! It’s a great template that could be adapted for use worldwide. The link’s still up for you to read. Thanks as ever, Dusty. Will post on X.