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White Men Can’t Work? Inside the UK’s Workplace Discrimination Backlash

Morning Wire

The Daily Wire

Daily News, News

4.925.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning journalist Tim Samuels discusses his new series White Men Can’t Work, which explores claims of workplace discrimination against white men in the UK. He shares powerful stories and polling data which reveal a growing sense of professional marginalization. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. To watch White Men Can’t Work!, go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxjRscUKOADVnqIEGjfbMLw

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0:00.0

JWT had a reputation for being white, straight, British, middle class, and they wanted to obliterate it.

0:12.6

That was a highly acclaimed advertising industry veteran who found himself abruptly fired because of his identity, being a white male.

0:20.8

The interview is part of a new series highlighting the growing number of white men in the UK

0:25.4

that feel they've been actively discriminated against in the workplace.

0:29.2

That includes more than a third of young men who say they've lost out on promotions and other opportunities because of their race and gender.

0:36.3

In this episode, we talked to the journalist and award-winning documentary maker behind the series about the trend and why he believes it's crucial to call attention to the issue in the UK now.

0:46.6

I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

0:50.0

It's Saturday, May 31st, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

0:54.9

Joining us now is Tim Samuel'sels, host of White Men Can't Work a new podcast series. Tim, thanks so much for joining us.

1:01.3

My pleasure. Good to see you, John.

1:02.5

So your new series highlights what you call the hidden scale of discrimination against white men in the workplace.

1:09.4

What do you think has allowed this trend to grow so rapidly

1:12.6

and yet remain largely unspoken for so long in the UK?

1:15.6

I think one of the things is it's incredibly hard to speak about this

1:19.6

without being cancelled, can't, labelled as a racist,

1:23.6

written off as a sort of far-right loonpot.

1:26.6

But, journalistically, I felt this is a subject that someone has to raise racist, written off as a sort of far-right loon pot. But

1:27.8

journalistically, I felt this is a subject that someone has to raise their head above

1:32.2

the parapet on because I think there is so much unsaid and untold anxiety that men are

1:41.5

feeling in today's workplace. There's a level of discrimination. And these

1:46.8

diversity, DEI schemes don't work. They don't even benefit women or people from minority

1:51.7

backgrounds. And I've spent a lot of time over the years talking about men and mental health in my

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