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A British-Iranian academic has escaped from Iran on foot in a hazardous getaway through the mountains after he was sentenced to nine years in prison in the country. Kameel Ahmady, a dual national who has angered Iranian hard-liners with his work on sensitive issues like child marriage and FGM, was accused of working with foreign … Read more
Pupils in England who have lost out on significant learning time as a result of the cycle of coronavirus lockdowns should be allowed to repeat an academic year, a damning report has urged. The Education Policy Institution is calling on the government to consider allowing students to repeat a year of education, where this is supported … Read more
A bus driver who killed a ‘promising’ academic from China and seriously injured another student after crashing his double-decker into a railway bridge has been jailed. Eric Vice, 64, was driving the service to Swansea University when its upper deck collided with a bridge as he took a detour from his usual route to ‘beat … Read more
We are living in stressful times: no wonder so many of us have taken refuge in our gardens and in the quiet corners of our potting sheds. Can there be a more harmless, innocent diversion than gardening? We all know it’s good for body and soul and our mental health. But the green-fingered ranks of … Read more
Professor Neil Ferguson’s argument for lockdown was ‘too good to be true’, says Swedish academic who accuses Imperial College London of ‘going beyond the data’ to support draconian measures Neil Ferguson co-wrote paper in June claiming restrictions cut the virus’s R-rate The first coronavirus wave subsided in Sweden without draconian measures Kristian Soltecz, of Sweden’s … Read more
Retired Swedish academic, 89, is killed in a fire at her semi-detached £750,000 Norwich home as police arrest a teenager who knew her Vera Croghan was found dead after a fire at her home in Unthank Road today A man in his late teens who knew her was arrested and questioned by police Mrs Croghan used … Read more
Iran releases videos showing Kylie Moore-Gilbert and her Israeli husband claiming the pair are SPIES and taunting them with intimate wedding pictures after her release from two years in hellhole jail Kylie Moore-Gilbert was released from Iranian prison last week after two years Videos online claim the Australian academic and her husband are spies Dr Moore-Gilbert … Read more
British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has spoken for the first time after her two-year prison stint in Iran. She was released in exchange for three Iranians held abroad, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported today. ‘I would like to thank the Australian government and in particular the Australian Foreign Ministry and Australian Embassy in Tehran who have … Read more
British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is released by Iran in prisoner swap, two years after she was jailed Kylie Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to ten years in Tehran’s Evin Prison in 2018 She was jailed for espionage and was freed in exchange for three jailed Iranians Moore-Gilbert was a Melbourne University lecturer on Middle Eastern studies By Associated … Read more
Racism and discrimination exist in UK because Britons don’t ‘wholly understand’ nation’s slave trade history, says National Trust academic National Trust published report on links between slavery and Trust properties Rita McLean is chair of a group examining how to act upon the findings In 2007 Ms McLean said: ‘A lot of the problems in society … Read more