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The promise of £350 million in extra funding for the NHS every week following Brexit. Ongoing greenwashing campaigns by legacy fossil fuel companies. The recent FTX & Theranos scandals.","text","paragraph",{"data":71,"content":72,"nodeType":69},{},[73],{"data":74,"marks":75,"value":76,"nodeType":68},{},[],"It's in this wider social context, that cynicism about policy agendas like ED&I is easy to understand. It’s difficult to be enthusiastic about empty rhetoric or performative gestures made out of cynical self-interest. Corporate virtue signalling. There’s no merit in a box ticking exercise that adds to the administrative burden on already stretched internal teams but yields little tangible benefit or effect.",{"data":78,"content":79,"nodeType":69},{},[80],{"data":81,"marks":82,"value":83,"nodeType":68},{},[],"So how do we rescue enthusiasm for the principles of equality diversity and inclusion in the workplace? 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