Water regulator Ofwat – which has still not been abolished – spent thousands of taxpayer pounds on diversity sessions with titles like: ‘We smell fear: Negativity bias and how to overcome it’. Here we go…
The Cabinet Office’s list of Civil Service spending on equality, diversity and inclusion for 2024/25, included DEFRA payments to the Cultural Calendar Club. Ofwat spent £4,200 of diversity spending on ‘Subscriptions & Events’ in 2025-26, going on an Employers for Carers membership from Carers UK, a Black History Month event from Champions UK, and the Cultural Calendar Club. The latter, hosted by the ‘Powered by Diversity’ consultants ran “a range of short virtual EDI events”…
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Mike Wood dug out the full list. There were a whopping 25 such online sessions in 2024 and 2025 with some cracking titles:
Guido may host a diversity session on the live show next week for World Public Sector Idleness Awareness Week. Stay tuned…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”