Good news. From the Wiki page on AIM:

AIM (formerly the Alternative Investment Market) is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange that was launched on 19 June 1995 as a replacement to the previous Unlisted Securities Market (USM) that had been in operation since 1980. It allows companies that are smaller, less-developed, or want/need a more flexible approach to governance to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable on the main market.”

From the Wiki page on the FTSE350:

“The FTSE 350 Index is a market capitalization weighted stock market index made up of the constituents of the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indices.^[1] The FTSE 100 Index comprises the largest 100 companies by capitalization which have their primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, while the FTSE 250 Index comprises mid-capitalized companies not covered by the FTSE 100, i.e. the 101st to 350th largest.

From the article:

FTSE 350 firms have a voluntary target of 40 per cent female board representation, which the study found only 11 per cent of AIM-listed companies would currently hit.

Meanwhile, the number of all-male boards on London’s junior stock market increased, [J4MB: Good news.] with 38 per cent having no female directors.

Indigo founder Bernadette Young said the results were “disappointing” [J4MB: Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.] and AIM companies “need to consider adopting clearer diversity ambitions”. [J4MB: No, they don’t need to either consider it, or do it. They should continuing recruiting directors as they see fit, a cornerstone of capitalism.]

“Gender diversity transformed over the last few years in the FTSE 350 and reporting has been a big driving factor,” Young told City AM.

She called for transparent search and selection processes to “eliminate unconscious bias”.

[End of extract.]

William Collins’s excellent article on unconscious bias is here.

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Our thanks to Ken for Labour MPs call for four-day week as part of workers’ rights package. Labour MPs are calling for a four-day week, with workers being paid the same as they are currently paid for a five-day week. An extract:

Maya Ellis, Labour MP for Ribble Valley, said: “Data shows that working four days leads to greater productivity than five. [J4MB: Think of how high productivity would be if people worked only one day a week!]

“That means in public organisations for example, that we can get through a higher volume of tasks, creating the increase in capacity we so desperately need to see in our public services.”

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Today’s file is here (video, 5:23).

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Well, what a surprise. If you’re a woman, feel free to call police officers stupid and white.

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A new piece on Unherd. The start:

“Just as DEI is being scaled back in American higher education, the UK is doubling down on it, much to the peril of academic freedom.

After a lengthy consultation period, conveniently timed to report after the election which brought Labour into office, guidance from Research England (which doles out over £2 billion in funding per year) has been released. It stipulates that its Research Excellence Framework (REF) will now grade university departments on their share of women and non-whites, promotion rates by race and sex, and how well they are training their staff in DEI ideology. All of which has nothing to do with research excellence.”

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Our thanks to Jeff for this.

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Interesting.

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