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FWIW I had no issue with Sunak becoming PM, though I'd have preferred Penny Mordaunt. When I look at the current and previous cabinet, they're generally a worthless shower, regardless of skin colour or gender. And the problem with quotas and counting numbers of types of people in different roles, is it assumes that the same number of people wanted to be in those roles, and all that stopped them was systemic bias. How many female refuse collectors are there? How many female soldiers are there? I know they exist, but nobody seems to be pushing for there to be more representation in those areas. And whilst I don't doubt the existence white male privilege in predominately white societies, but I fail to see how that inherently means that anyone not white or male is a better person.
I'm not a fan of quotas either ... I remember BBC in the 1980s, when the 'token brown skin' was sometimes a bit wooden (actor) or unfunny (comedian). Obviously, the pool of available talent was very small back then.
This is a really great graphic - we are the guy on left hand side, benefiting from systemic bias. It's difficult for us to appreciate any other perspective, as we work hard to collect apples and deserve our accumulated wealth. Everyone else is undeserving or lazy.
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Source: Design in Tech Report 2019 - John Maeda
When The Times is reporting it like this, you just know it's time for some serious reform!
Liz Truss’s resignation honours list: 11 rewarded amid ‘cronyism’ claims - The former prime minister gave peerages to three supporters and eight other titles to MPs and close associates
Peerages for Cos, Little Gem, and Iceberg.
MBE's for Romain and Butterhead.
CBE's for Latavia and Lamb's.
⬆️ ... needs to stop! ⬇️
A worrying (global) trend ... FT (free): A new global gender divide is emerging - twitter thread unrolled > https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1750849189834022932?s=20
Globally, young women are very progressive, young men are surprisingly conservative.
young American men hold *more conservative views on gender* than older men.
In UK, all groups of people have become more liberal on race and immigration *except young men*
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, young women have both become more progressive and more vocal about their views. Many young men feel threatened and have reacted by taking the opposite position.
Throughout history each generation has had more liberal views than the last on socio/cultural issues (think racism, gender roles etc). So part of what we’re seeing here is young women continuing on that long-term trend, while young men aren’t.
So from a practical perspective it feels much more likely the gap will be closed by men liberalising (in line with historical trends) than women reversing (counter to trends).
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-women-dont-agree-politics-2024-1
Oh dear ...
Some serious analysis here !
the full numbers (with changes from 4 February in parenthesis) are as follows:
- 46% Labour (+1)
- 21% Conservative (-3)
- 12% Reform UK (–)
- 11% Liberal Democrat (+2)
- 5% Green (+1)
- 3% Scottish National Party (–)
- 2% Other (–)
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Good to see reform splitting the extreme right wing vote.
In an ideal world, that would carry through to the election, and lose the tories a few seats whilst not yielding a single one for reform.
Oh my ... this is in The Telegraph!
