From Elsewhere: Victor Davis Hanson on the Arday Affair.
I wasn’t going to write much more on the Arday Affair apart from maybe mocking the University that hired him, but my attention was…
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Quote of the Day 16th August 2024 – Video. Education is not enlightenment.
Charlotte Gill who has done a brilliant job of sniffing out examples of extreme and often left wing waste in government and in academia…
Alumni For Free Speech – An organisation that may well be worth supporting.
The condition of freedom of speech in Britain’s university and college sector is as far as I can tell, abysmal. It has become an…
From Elsewhere: University Challenged. Britain’s university sector is in a complete mess.
If you have concerns about the direction that Britain’s higher education sector is going then you will probably be interested in a recent article…
From Elsewhere: Video about the Free Speech Champions project
Really interesting short bit of video from GBNews about the Free Speech Champions project. A couple of things about this conversation caught my ears….
From Elsewhere: The academy has become a place where critical thinking is not encouraged but instead destroyed.
About a week ago I wrote an article discussing the decision by the manager of a conservative leaning NGO in the United States to…
A ‘curate’s egg’ of a speech about free speech by Jo Johnson
It was fitting that over the Christmas period the British Universities Minister Jo Johnson chose the Jewish Limmud festival to talk about the increasing…
Who’d have thought it, a Lib Dem pussy-footing around when it comes to Islamic hate preachers.
The case of ‘Murdering Mohammed’ Emwazi’, otherwise known to the media as ‘Jihadi John’ has brought the subject of Islamic extremism on University campuses…
From Elsewhere: ‘Jim Crow’ type rules coming to British universities?
Imagine a university or a representative body of British universities agreeing to a policy like this: “No black person shall sit with a white person….
From Elsewhere: Some American Universities speaking up against Islamic apartheid
It seems that some students and staff are learning to speak the truth for a change and are holding Islamic Apartheid Weeks sponsored by the…
