News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
Democrats Are No Longer Hiding Their Plan to Censor America
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
A freedom of speech row has erupted at Durham University as one of its oldest societies, the 182 year-old Durham Union debating society, was banned from taking part in freshers' fair over "DEI non-compliance".
Oxford was keen to acknowledge racial tensions in the recent riots, but this felt like a cruel joke to Jewish students, coming from a university that has never recognised the open targeting of Jews since October 7th.
"Tune in, turn on, grow up!" Jordan Peterson tells Joe Rogan it's time to put the permanent adolescence of the 1960s behind us. It's Peterson vs Peter Pan, says Prof James Alexander.
Universities are in the midst of a financial crisis, with a dramatic drop in demand leading to the closure of arts and humanities degrees across England.
Stunt protest is very much like contemporary art: incomprehensible until one reads the label. If only the protestors would take their hammers, chisels and glue to the exhibits at the Tate Modern, says James Alexander.
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.
A recent study of deaths in U.S. students appears to show a declining rate of sudden cardiac deaths. Dr. Clare Craig looks at why the results are not all they seem.
Young people in the workplace don't have the skills to debate, disagree and work alongside people with different opinions, and lockdowns are to blame, Channel 4's Chief Executive has said.
There is an aspect of higher education that one never hears spoken – the cost of frittering away the productive working time of the young, an invisible drain on our society far larger than the direct costs of education.
It's time, says Aditya A, to crack down on graduate visas to Indian students not at the top universities. "Allowing them to come even though they take Mickey Mouse degrees and are not here to study anyway is perilous."
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