Bang in the middle of the US race riots..?

I heard this too YT and thought much the same, but also that I was just getting old.

Awards to be given out on subject matter alone? But only on the "right" subject matter.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

Andrew Lawrence on Doctor Who's latest choice.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Silvertop, are you able to provide any more specific details (which section of which Act, any accompanying guidance etc?).

I have become increasingly concerned about this. My place of work is proudly compelling me to discriminate, very much against my will. Specifically:

1. When I interview candidates, I must form a panel which is diverse in terms of race and gender. I am so dull as to only occupy one of each, so I had to ask a female colleague of Asian heritage to join me on the panel regardless of her personal suitability for the task, and also explain that if she can't make it, I need to find another non-white female because in the eyes of this insane woke legislation, you lot are all the same.

2. They are introducing targets (quotas) regarding the racial composition of the workplace, which they want me to factor in when deciding who to employ. I researched this, and found that generally speaking positive discrimination is illegal under (then EU, perhaps now just UK?) law, because any form of discrimination is illegal. However, there is a clause allowing a place of employment to introduce race as a criterion for employment if that organisation feels that a particular racial group is disadvantaged at that time.

I looked into this further. From what I could gather, firstly, race could only be used as a kind of tie-breaker (i.e two candidates had to be equally appointable before race could be used to separate them). Secondly, the employing company doesn't need to demonstrate to anyone that a particular race is, as a matter of fact, disadvantaged in order to introduce positive discrimination - they just have to believe it is so. Thirdly, even if an employer feels a racial group is disadvantaged there is no compulsion to use positive discrimination, it is a choice an employer can make.

It seems to me that far from positive discrimination being forced upon my employer by the regulations, it is my employer who has actively chosen this path.

The Problem with Dr Who has been the quality and ludicrousness of the storylines.. ever since Russell T Davies left.
I hated Tennants Dr (it was the way he Gurns whilst running!), but the Storylines were excellent. Conversely, Loved Matt Smiths Dr, but they had confusing, overly woke sensationalist crappy plots, each episode trying to usurp the last big doctor revelation.

Thats continued to this day with Capaldi and Whittaker. One can only hope that Davies' return brings with it a return to watchable TV.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

TBTP:

I encountered similar problems:

1. When Interviewing candidates we had to have a diverse panel
2. When compiling a shortlist from applicants we needed at least one female applicant to be selected for interview.
3. We were subject to scrutiny if nobody with a disability or 'BAME' was interviewed or even employed within a set number of appointments.
5 We had a quota to meet for female employees appointed.
3. If you ticked a 'diversity' box on applications, you were immediately put through to interview without any meritocracy, or at least the very minimum being applied. This was literally a 'box' to be ticked by the applicant.

Often organisations will develop their own 'diversity' policies, usually to meet either legal or self imposed 'quotas'. Apologies as I am unable to provide any factual information for help but I actually work in a smaller team now and am unaware of how this might of changed. Just thought I'd let you know you're not alone but my strong suspicion would be that your company will be scrutinised by certain public bodies if they do not meet any 'diversity' targets and therefore have self imposed certain practices. At the very least, god forbid, somebody may stir up the weakest in society by 'leaking' on social media and cause uproar.

It is nice to see that rather then tackling any problems however the world is still committed to going to the other extreme as a counter-action.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!