News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The British Medical Journal is under fire for ditching research from top academics due to their belief that sex is biological and immutable.
Oxford dons have called for the university’s head of equality to resign after he backed the pro-Palestinian protest camp at the university – and he previously celebrated the NatCon conference being shut down by police.
Shameful scenes of pro-Palestine supporters chanting the genocidal slogan 'From the river to the sea' and inciting an 'intifada' have sprung up at universities across the country.
An historic legal battle is unfolding as 35 individuals claim complications from the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, alleging it caused a rare side effect leading to blood clots.
We are finally entering a phase of Covid 'narrative collapse', says Oxford epidemiologist Prof Sunetra Gupta. However, many are still refusing to recognise that the problem wasn't just school closures; it was lockdown.
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'.
A recent Guardian article claims that elite universities are “highly conservative institutions”. In fact, they're institutionally woke. A recent poll at Harvard found that only 1.5% of faculty identify as conservative.
An Oxford college has been accused of cancelling St George's Day in a row over a Muslim Eid formal dinner being held in place of the usual banquet in honour of England's patron saint on April 23rd.
Oxford has launched an "investigation" into an email sent by a don 26 years ago when he was an LSE undergraduate. If someone says they told an off-colour joke when they were 14, is Oxford going to look into that too?
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