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Cancelling cancel culture: Students and academics will be able to SUE universities for censoring free speech under planned Government crackdown Academics will be able to seek compensation for being denied free speech Gavin Williamson has unveiled plans for a ‘free speech champion’ at university Mr Williamson warned of the threat of a ‘cancel culture’ and … Read more
The date everything changed is entrenched in my memory – June 23, 2016, the day Britain voted for Brexit. Before that moment I was a professor of British politics who loved his job, enjoyed spending time with his colleagues and looked forward to life in Britain’s universities, which are among the best in the world. … Read more
The leading figure in a campaign to topple Britain’s statues is a hard-left antivaxxer fanatic who once disrupted a service for the Queen to tell her ‘you should be ashamed’. Toyin Agbetu, 53, was recently appointed a member of Sadiq Khan’s new diversity commission and is now supporting a campaign to remove a monument to … Read more
More than 80 ‘high risk’ Chinese academics at Oxford are working in sensitive fields with potential military applications, think-tank claims More than 80 ‘high risk’ Chinese students in sensitive fields at Oxford last year 669 Chinese nationals who attended army-linked universities now work in UK The students pursue subjects that have potential military applications Now … Read more
Chinese spies have been looting British universities for years. That is one scandal. The other – even more outrageous – is that we are only now waking up to it. The fact that almost 200 leading UK academics are being investigated for their unwitting connections to Chinese weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes is scarcely … Read more
That’s bananas! University of York academics ‘cancel’ the three wise monkeys after deciding the centuries-old characters are an oppressive racial stereotype Art history conference organisers used image of them in promotional material They have long symbolised the proverbial ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ Image became popular in Japan in the 17th … Read more
The graduate daughter of a retired academic shielded her murderer boyfriend from police after he stabbed his cousin to death using her father’s Scout knife, a court heard today. Former Manchester Metropolitan University student Megan Armstrong-Challinor, 27, moved Jerome Bailey, 38, into her parents’ £800,000 home while they were holidaying in Spain. Croydon Crown Court … Read more
Campaigners have hailed a ‘victory for free speech after academics at Cambridge University rejected demands that views remain ‘respectful’. Dons opted instead to support ‘tolerance’ of differing opinions instead of ‘respect’ – a term which made critics fearful that it could crush freedom of expression. The vote yesterday has resulted in widespread praise as campaigners claim … Read more
Victory for free speech at Cambridge University: Academics reject demand that views aired during debates should remain ‘respectful’ because it could crush freedom of expression Cambridge dons opted instead to support ‘tolerance’ of differing opinions They backed amendments making it harder for speakers to be ‘no-platformed’ Revised guidelines ensure right to express ‘controversial or unpopular … Read more
Free speech row erupts at Cambridge as academics revolt over new rule demanding they be ‘respectful of the diverse identities of others’ The University of Cambridge is at the centre of a free speech row with lecturers Academics refused to back a rule which could mean they face disciplinary action for mocking people or ideas … Read more