News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Laurie Wastell has written an excellent piece in the Spectator about the mobbing of Nathan Cofnas – a Cambridge post-doc who is under investigation because of a controversial blog post he wrote last February.
Intellectual flip-flops on lockdowns and vaccines reveal the institutional pressures on so-called experts, argues Jeffrey A Tucker. They simply cannot afford to be fearless truth-tellers.
Over 100 academics from top U.K. universities have formed the London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom, with the goal of protecting free speech, intellectual diversity and open discourse on university campuses.
Durham University is encouraging academics to 'decolonise' degree courses by providing them with a 'woke toolkit' aimed at removing non-inclusive content from lessons.
The Left and the Right need to reconsider their blind spots, argues Kathleen Stock in a withering critique of an essay by Vogue's favourite philosopher, Amia Srinivasan.
Criticising China’s Covid lockdowns is a “microaggression”, a university has told professors, as it faces a revolt from more than a dozen of its own academics who accuse it of “policing conformity".
“City considers my data to be dangerous.” A sociologist has been blocked from publishing her study into censorship of academics over views on transgender issues. Now Dr. Favaro is bringing an employment tribunal claim.
The Architects Registration Board is refusing to allow graduates of architecture schools to register – a condition of practising – unless they pledge their allegiance to the the ‘climate emergency’ cult.
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