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Your correspondent, Jonathan Laycock, rightly asks why so many university departments have embraced and re-enforced the dogmas of “critical theory” (LETTERS, DECEMBER-JANUARY). He wonders whether it is attributable to the incentives generated from the funding streams of other public bodies.

That may be a part of the story, but alas it begs the question why those bodies offer such incentives. Much of the impetus is generated by universities adopting the strictures of the so-called Race Equality Charter. This was

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