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By Sam Stimpson with a bit of help from Claude! Image credit: Unsplash A client asked me a question last week that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. They'd taken their Pride colours down this year and they wanted to know if that had been a mistake. Their reasoning wasn't apathy. They'd watched the same pattern play out in organisations for years. Flags go up for the month or week, black squares appear, purple hearts get added to a bio for a week and then nothing changes. No policy...

By Samantha Stimpson - Image from Canva (2026) If you work in inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility and you're worried about your job right now this post is for you. The rollback is real and it is accelerating. Reform UK has moved swiftly in councils it controls to cut diversity and inclusion spending and remove EDI roles, with their then-chairman signalling publicly that such spending would be targeted as "waste." (BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, May 2025). In February 2026,...

Out of order lift at Teddington Station Two weeks ago, I damaged my ankle playing netball and found myself navigating the world on crutches. If you've read this week's Radio SLS 360, you'll know it wasn't easy. Doors that needed two hands. A buffet I couldn't serve myself from. Lifts that were out of service. And a moment on a train platform, frozen and in tears, that I won't forget in a hurry. What struck me most wasn't the inconvenience. It was the invisibility. The sense that spaces,...