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HOW CAN EMPLOYERS DEPOLITICISE THE WORKPLACE? PHOTO GALLERY

Remember when flags, pronouns, staff groups and awareness days seemed like risk-free, feelgood ‘inclusion’ initiatives? When elections didn’t create tension in the workplace? When publicly supporting #MeToo and BLM was not only fashionable but essential? When DEI focused on expanding your talent pool and retaining the best people – and ESG was about maximising the […]

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The Cult Of ‘Inclusion’ Impacts Charities And Churches

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May 7, 2026
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The Ick Factor: What Is Too Weird For Work?

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Have Employers Missed The Vibe Shift? (Ft. Brendan O’Neill)

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Is HR Holding Back British Business? (Podcast episode)

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Journalist, HR commentator, founder of the Good + Fair Employers Club and careers blog Graduate Fog, and listed as one of HR Magazine's 'Most Influential Thinkers'

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This Isn’t Working

The podcast for employers and employees who think it’s time to talk about the failings of workplace culture – and how we can do better.

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Tanya de Grunwald – Journalist, HR commentator, founder of the Good + Fair Employers Club and careers blog Graduate Fog, and listed as one of HR Magazine’s ’Most Influential Thinkers’

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‘No Debate’ Is Dead – What Now? (Ft. Nick Wallis)
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What happens when the smartest employers finally stop being afraid to talk? In a format flip, journalist Nick Wallis turns the microphone on Tanya de Grunwald herself, pressing her on the launch of her new online platform, This Is Working.

For years, the mantra “no debate” silenced essential discussion, not just around the trans issue, but on race, identity, politics and almost anything that touched the culture wars.

But Tanya has spent three years watching that silence crack, quietly normalising calm, professional debate on the subjects that employers needed to discuss five (or more) years ago. Now she’s convinced the freeze is over, and that the private sector is already leading the thaw.

Nick asks:

– What exactly is This Is Working, and why is Tanya so sure there’s demand for an online space where professional people can have meaty, unfiltered discussion about workplace dysfunction?

– What’s the mood among employers right now — and who’s showing the greatest enthusiasm for fixing the problems that “no debate” created?

– What does global demand for this discussion look like — why are there so many overlapping themes, and which countries are hungriest for it?

– Why does Tanya think the private sector is leading this shift, when the loudest complaints about broken workplace culture have historically come from elsewhere?

– Why have so many organisations lost their way on DEI, leadership and cancel culture — and how did well-meaning people end up doing so much damage?

– What solutions are actually emerging, and which employers are furthest ahead in working them out?

Drawing on his own investigations into the UK’s Post Office scandal, Nick also asks Tanya for her view on whether moralising is misplaced in a workplace setting, and what she predicts will be the two big forces that will make sure common sense overrules the nonsense…

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