In this week’s episode, Rachel and Simon pull on their Christmas jumpers and look back at a year of fearless diversity. But instead of a partridge, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, gold rings and geese, their first “Six Days of Christmas” are:
📌 The Employment Rights Bill
📌 The surge in ADHD, autism and wider mental health diagnoses
📌 What really happened to the so-called “diversity backlash”
📌 The national shame of violence against women – and what it means for workplaces
📌 Significant employment tribunals and the defence of lawful belief
📌 The aftermath of the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland
Threaded through all six are a hard, practical set of questions:
Amid culture-war noise and contested change, is there finally an appetite for more grown-up, practical responses in workplaces and in public life?
Join Simon and Rachel for this week’s Christmas special, and feel free to comment, share, disagree and enjoy.
RESOURCES:
Sir Charlie Mayfield interviewed by Anna Foster on Radio 4’s Today Program (05/12/2025)
Charlie Mayfield Review Keep Britain Working Review: Discovery - GOV.UK
Sarah Everard’s mother’s statement on her daughter’s murder
Lady Elish Angiolini (former solicitor general for Scotland) on the release of The Angiolini Inquiry Part 2 First Report: Prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public
Higgs v Farmor’s School – Appeal Court judgement
Miller v University of Bristol
The original judgement
This is being appealed – the hearing was on 12-14th November 2025. Judgement not yet handed down
People Management
“UK companies abandon EDI initiatives in response to Trump’s anti-diversity rhetoric, survey finds” – Nov 3rd 2025
Minister, Baroness Smith - Clarity on Supreme Court Judgement, November 2025
The Prime Minister “the Supreme Court Judgement must be implemented in full and at all levels”, November 2025
Supreme Court judgement in April
For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent)
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