Category Archives: Equality

The Creation, CBSO/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Posted on October 4, 2018 by kindadukish

For the last few years I have followed the career of the Lithuanian conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla with considerable interest. She was the “shock” appointment as Musical Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra after Andris Nelsons departed for the … Continue reading →

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Port Sunlight and William Lever, Social Philanthropist…………..should be compulsory reading for HR professionals

Posted on August 19, 2018 by kindadukish

Yesterday I paid a second visit to Port Sunlight village and visited the museum and one of the workers cottages. The museum is small but well worth a visit if you are the least bit interested in our industrial heritage. … Continue reading →

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the European Union Chamber Orchestra

Posted on March 3, 2018 by kindadukish

On the 25th February 2018 I went to a concert at the Subscriptions Rooms in Stroud, Gloucestershire with our friend Liz who had managed to get tickets. It was a sold out audience because the featured soloist was Sheku Kanneh-Mason, … Continue reading →

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Sounds of the Sixties………get rid of Tony Blackburn PLEASE!

Posted on August 5, 2017 by kindadukish

    As a child of the 60s my formative musical education was based around the emerging popular music scene of the time. As a teenager I listened to the Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, John Mayall, the Searchers, Swinging Blue Jeans … Continue reading →

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All whites are racist according to black Cambridge student……………….

Posted on July 31, 2017 by kindadukish

  Cambridge University is investigating remarks by the head of an equality group who claimed “all white people are racist” and praised protesters who clashed violently with police. Jason Osamede Okundaye, 20, who runs the university students’ Black and Minority … Continue reading →

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UK wife carrying championship……this will get up the SJW noses!!!!

Posted on March 6, 2017 by kindadukish

Above: Eventual winners Jack McKendrick (No. 21), carrying his wife Kirsty Jones, neck-and-neck with fellow competitors at the hay-bale hurdles at the UK Wife Carrying Race 2017 in Dorking, Surrey. Wife carrying can be a dangerous activity, which can lead … Continue reading →

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Hidden Figures……..a must see film and stunning performance from Octavia Spencer

Posted on March 1, 2017 by kindadukish

I made one of my relatively rare forays to the cinema last week to watch the new film “Hidden Figures”. I was little half hearted about the film as the thought of another “revisionist” story from history, mixed with the … Continue reading →

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Mary Ellis……..one of the last of “The Female Few”

Posted on February 5, 2017 by kindadukish

Tearing through the skies above the South Coast, two Spitfires evoke powerful memories of Britain’s wartime resilience. But this stirring image holds a further poignancy – for in the cockpit of the lead aircraft sits Mary Ellis, celebrating her 100th … Continue reading →

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Arrogant, conceited and patronising university students (or middle class “snowflakes”)!

Posted on November 23, 2016 by kindadukish

An Oxford University college has created a new post to protect working-class students from “microaggressions and classism”. Last week St. Hilda’s College students voted to create the new post of Class Liberation Officer, backing a motion that said working-class students … Continue reading →

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Mirga opens with a dazzling first concert at Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Posted on November 18, 2016 by kindadukish

Having closely followed the career of Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, I am pleased to publish the review  ( 4 stars) of her first concert as Music Director of the CBSO, published in the Times newspaper dated 18 November 2016. First fire, then a sunrise. … Continue reading →

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