Craig Simpson

London

Arts Correspondent at The Telegraph

Arts Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph @Telegraph Feel free to get in touch: [email protected]

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Vikings were not all white, pupils to be told

6 days ago | msn.com | Craig Simpson

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Vikings were not all white, pupils to be told

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Craig Simpson

Vikings were “very diverse” and not all white, according to a guide to teaching schoolchildren. Tutors placed in schools by The Brilliant Club, an educational charity, have been urged to ditch “Eurocentric” ideas in favour of a “decolonised narrative” that moves subjects away from a Western focus. A guide produced by the charity suggests ditching the idea that the Vikings were a “homogenous community of blonde Scandinavians”.
Vikings were not all white, pupils to be told

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Craig Simpson

The last large-scale study of Viking DNA, conducted by the University of Cambridge in 2020, suggested that diversity in Scandinavian genetics came from other parts of Europe and what is now Russia. The Brilliant Club runs a scholarship programme that places PhD students in more than 800 schools to tutor underprivileged pupils and help them get to university. Schools can apply to receive tutoring, and PhD students can apply for paid placements in Brilliant Club schools.
JK Rowling donates to female-only breastfeeding charity in NHS protest

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Craig Simpson

The NHS has been plagued by scandals about efforts to include transgender people in post-natal services. In 2021, it emerged that midwives at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust were told to use gender-inclusive language, including "mothers or birthing parents", "breast/chestfeeding" and "maternal and parental".
Kate Nash takes swipe at JK Rowling in new pro-trans single

1 week ago | msn.com | Craig Simpson

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Kate Nash takes swipe at JK Rowling in new pro-trans single

1 week ago | msn.com | Craig Simpson

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Kate Nash takes swipe at JK Rowling in new pro-trans single

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Craig Simpson

In the song, the unnamed "girl" is also accused of aligning herself with "Peterson, Musk and Trump". The track goes on to state that "society is nonsense", and quotes a Guardian article, which claims trans people are more likely to face violence. While Rowling is unnamed, the track appears to reference her vocal opposition to allowing biological men to participate in women's sports and enter women's bathrooms.
Sir Ian McKellen to open trans Shakespeare production

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Craig Simpson

Sir Ian McKellen will support an all-transgender and non-binary version of Twelfth Night. The eminent Shakespearean actor, 86, will introduce the one-night-only performance at the Space Theatre in London. It will consist of a reading of the play conducted entirely by those who identify as non-binary or transgender. The play will also be directed by Phoebe Kemp, who prefers they/them pronouns, in a new London production.
Movies have gone woke

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Craig Simpson

For decades, Hollywood has dismissed claims that it infuses films with a Left-wing agenda. But viewers who are sick of seeing politics shoehorned into cinema finally have data on their side to prove it. An analysis of more than 50,000 films found that movies really have become more "woke" over time. Stephen Follows, an industry expert, determined that since the 1970s, films focused on inclusion and representation have been on the rise, with the most dramatic increase from the early 2000s onwards.
Welsh Labour drops word ‘us’ for being exclusionary

1 week ago | msn.com | Craig Simpson

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