News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Where did woke come from? Eric Kaufmann says it's not from Marxism but from something more visceral for the Left: the sacralisation of 'disadvantaged' minority groups and an overactive sense of guilt.
A new investigation by the Free Speech Union has revealed that local authority-run libraries are suppressing books by gender critical authors and energetically promoting ones by trans right activists.
According to the latest British Social Attitudes report, prejudice towards trans people has almost doubled in the last three years. This proves the terror tactics of the trans Taliban aren't working.
Why have universities departed so much from Cardinal Newman's guiding idea? Professor James Alexander says it's because they have become secularised, instrumentalised, centralised and infected by ideology.
An Oxford College has issued a "trans inclusion statement" threatening students with expulsion if they "misgender" their trans peers. Sounds like a case for the Free Speech Union!
Roz Possnett, the trans activist who disrupted Kathleen Stock's talk at the Oxford Union, is the daughter of an XR activist and a town hall chief who introduced a four-day week. Is this Britain's wokest family?
Given that transwomen make up just 0.1% of the population, why has a generation of activists chosen transwomen's access to 'the Ladies' as the hill to die on? We went to the Oxford Union on Tuesday to try to find out.
The Prime Minister has intervened in the row about whether Kathleen Stock should be allowed to speak at the Oxford Union and said the 'vocal few' must not be allowed to stifle debate.
The Oxford University Students' Union has reversed its decision to ban the Oxford Union from freshers' fair after the Union refused to no-platform Kathleen Stock following an intervention by the Free Speech Union.
More than 40 academics have intervened in support of a planned appearance at Oxford by Prof. Kathleen Stock, after students have tried to cancel her talk because she disputes that 'transwomen are women'.
© Skeptics Ltd.