Queen Mary University of London has hit a new low in its introduction of 'Inhuman Geography', where snow-capped mountains and dark underground mines are treated as evidence of 'white racism', says Steven Tucker.
When a PhD on the "politics of smell" trended on X recently it exposed how elites use pretentious woke gobbledegook to exclude the people from power, much like previous generations used Latin and Greek, says Steven Tucker.
Economist Prof Steve Fothergill has said he was "sacked" by Sheffield Hallam University after writing a paper that criticised UK immigration policy for allowing large numbers of jobs to be taken by foreigners.
Essex police has dropped its investigation into Allison Pearson. Ex-copper Dominic Adler gives an insider's view of what has likely been going on behind the scenes, where, as he explains, the process is the punishment.
In another case of 'you couldn't make it up', there's a campaign underway to 'decolonise' exams by letting students sit their own personalised ones they could never fail. What could possibly go wrong, asks Steven Tucker.
If you thought transgenderism was crazy, wait till you meet the 'transableists' – able-bodied people who (sincerely, it seems) identify as disabled, with some even lopping off limbs or blinding themselves.
U.K. universities lead the world in spin, says Dr. Roger Watson, who describes some of the most egregious examples from his 30-year university teaching career.
Academic publishing has become a racket, says Dr. David Livermore. Authors pay thousands to get their articles in, editors and referees are practically slave-labour, but publishing houses like Elsevier are raking it in.
Identity politics has corrupted academic disciplines, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, and the arrival of an 'Afrochemistry' course at a U.S. university shows that even the hard sciences are not immune.
Children's rights advocates are finally waking up to the devastation lockdowns visited upon young people. But they still can't bring themselves to admit that schools closures were wrong and should never have happened.
