What’s the Point of the Latest Ukraine Escalation?
23 November 2024
by Eugyppius
The Emperor’s New Ad
22 November 2024
The Government has just announced it intends to block the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, effectively declaring war on free speech. It's time to join the Free Speech Union and fight back.
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.
Amid financial woes, UK universities are slashing academic jobs but splurging on 'woke' roles, offering bumper paychecks for positions in equality, diversity and inclusion.
Top universities including Imperial College and Glasgow have told staff and students that saying "the most qualified person should get the job" is a "microaggression", among other examples of woke language policing.
Harvard's Diverse Black Female President Claudine Gay is obviously a plagiarist, says Eugyppius. Not only has she copied many passages word for word, she appears to have appropriated Carol Swain's entire research agenda.
U.K. universities offering 'woke' master's degrees have fuelled concerns over the exploitation of immigration loopholes, prompting calls for stricter regulations to reduce net migration levels.
Too many students regret life-long debts as a consequence of often worthless degrees at institutions that pay their senior managers up to £700,000 a year. But there is a better way, says Mark Ellse.
There has never been a class of people who are freer to express their opinions than Left-leaning academics in 2023. So why do they think the Government is trying to censor them, asks Dr David McGrogan.
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.
Doug Stokes, a professor of international relations at Exeter, has summarised the thesis of his new book, Against Decolonisation, for the Daily Sceptic: it's based on nonsense and is sapping our national self-confidence.
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