Quaker Political Interference Has Got Out of Control
12 April 2025
News Round-Up
12 April 2025
by Will Jones
The biggest British Parliamentary debate competition in the world run by the Oxford Union pressures hundreds of children as young as 14 to declare their gender pronouns every year.
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.
Many critics of wokery allow that the woke have "good intentions" but just err in the means to achieve their goals. But is that really true? David Hansard thinks not.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are whether Klaus Schwab is pulling the strings, Clarkson and the futility of apologising to the Twitchfork mob and Steve Baker coming out as a woke "LGBT+ ally".
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