“Childbearing people” –how the NHS is ideologically CAPTURED. James Esses

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Interesting. At the head of the article:

Each Monday, our new columnist James Esses is fearlessly exposing how major institutions have been ideologically captured —including his trilogy on the Financial Times, John Lewis, and BBC. You can support his work by upgrading now. Today, he looks at an NHS Trust.

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Teachers tell schoolboys that ‘displaying traditional gendered roles in a family’ could lead to them committing RAPE: Almost a third of schools use relationship and sex education classes to tell kids about ‘toxic masculinity’

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Our thanks to Paolo for this (Mail, £).

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The J4MB Files #571: Bettina Arndt’s Q&A (ICMI21)

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We’re linking daily to selected video / audio files from our YouTube channel. Today’s file is here (video, 41:38).

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Leeds International Piano Competition: Female pianists favoured over men under major competition’s rules.

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Appalling (Telegraph, £).

The jury of the Leeds International Piano Competition has been required to “consider advancing the woman” in the event of a tie between a man and a woman. Jurors must cancel their votes and start again if any round of the competition “significantly reduces the ratio of women to men”. They have also been required to undertake training with a view to “eliminating both conscious and unconscious bias in order to promote a more equal environment for all competitors”. The aim to help to “tackle male dominance”, according to the rulebook.

Why don’t they just have a prize without these absurd rules in competitions anyone can enter (and men will naturally win, most of the time) and one for people unable to compete with men, such as women?

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