
Craig Simpson
Arts Correspondent at The Telegraph
Arts Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph @Telegraph Feel free to get in touch: [email protected]
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msn.com | Craig Simpson
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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”.
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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.
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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".
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msn.com | Craig Simpson
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