The Free Speech Union
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A mass membership organisation dedicated to upholding free speech. To join, go to https://t.co/DsrzzcM7p8. Membership fees start at £4.99 a month
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A group of academics at Cardiff University have set up a pro-free speech organisation – CAF – that is holding its first meeting at the University right now. It's able to go ahead thanks to funding from the The Free Speech Union's Ian Mactaggart Programme, which is paying the security
The editor of BMJ Open referred to John Armstrong 's (gender critical) twitter feed to justify rejecting a statistical paper which the reviewers had found to be valid.
This is not how scientific peer review is supposed to operate Sense about Science
Good luck with your event tonight Cardiff Academic Freedom Association - Prof Jo Phoenix Naomi Waltham-Smith nigel biggar Thomas Prosser 🏴🇵🇱 The Free Speech Union
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Talking points on Episode #60 of our podcast include: impartiality breaches in Whitehall over trans issues; the airbrushing of Anglo-Saxons from history; and why recommending a sushi restaurant to Japanese colleagues is definitely NOT a 'microaggression'.
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Ian Miles Cheong They are shamelessly copying stupid things from America. How embarrassing.
Yet another example of politically motivated denial of service, this time from Belgium — Bpost, the country’s government majority owned postal service, is refusing to work with a right-of-centre news magazine in a 'blatant undermining of press freedom'.
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An employment tribunal has dismissed claims by a Japanese professor at SOAS in London that she suffered race discrimination from a fellow academic who subjected her to 'racist microaggressions', including recommending a sushi restaurant she might enjoy.
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Ofcom’s latest investigation into GB News for alleged impartiality breaches reveals the snobbishness at the heart of its decision-making, says Andrew Tettenborn. The UK's broadcast regulator just doesn't trust viewers to make up their own minds about politics.
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'Do rape-crisis centres exist to support rape victims, or to validate the beliefs of gender ideologues?' This was the question at the heart of an important recent UK tribunal ruling, writes Jo Bartosch.
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Talking points on Episode #60 of our podcast include: impartiality breaches in Whitehall over trans issues; the airbrushing of Anglo-Saxons from history; and why recommending a sushi restaurant to Japanese colleagues is definitely NOT a 'microaggression'.
thatsdebatablepodcast.podbean.com/e/not-angles-b…