"It is astonishing to me that people who work in the world of words are so opposed to free speech." Letter writer nails it in today's Sunday Independent John Boyne Books

Charlotte Gauthier Ian Pace Alexandra Wilson Paul Lay x.com/GMcCor/status/… The person I mention here was a Cambridge grad. Your description is right, except that I the person in question did try for something: power. And they were quite successful in this regard.

Good news, KCL has now removed the (unlawful) requirement to submit a EDI statement from the job advert for lecturer in music history that I tweeted about a week ago. Compare the old and current versions of the required application documents below. Alumni for Free Speech Committee for Academic Freedom

“I don't think of myself as ‘gender-critical’ anymore. I think I am a sex realist. I think that my enemies are sex-denialists.” Helen Joyce

My very small contribution to The Times and The Sunday Times following John Maier & Daniel Kodsi’s excellent essay. Dīvertere: to turn away. As universities divert from evidence-based teaching and learning in favour of the ideological zeitgeist, we must ask what and whose purposes universities serve.

"Gender-Critical Feminism became available in May 2022; mysteriously, the book (unlike every other comparable work in feminist philosophy published by OUP) has never appeared in electronic form on Oxford Scholarship Online." No change... Holly Lawford-Smith quillette.com/2023/04/17/phi…

The attitudes in this article are indicative of what serves as a major recruiting agent for Reform. The white working class are turning against a privileged elite who despises them. This is why Matthew Syed ‘s article is so important. thetimes.com/comment/column…

One of the basic human rights a workplace bully takes away from you is the right to be angry with them. No matter how badly they treated you, your voice shouldn't rise. The privilege of rage is reserved for them alone. They invalidate your anger so they can escape accountability

A new post on flags, the other meanings they can have as well as those claimed by the far right, and how demonising the white working class as primarily racist can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

What do these flags mean to me? | Desiring Progress. This is a really interesting blog by ⁦Ian Pace⁩ on the flag and identity debate ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

'I am reasonably happy to be a citoyen du monde ... [but for] those with more limited means in working-class communities and less wherewithal for frequent foreign travel. A sense of belonging to a larger unit does appear to be important, even necessary.' ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

'But when various minority identities and cultural traditions ... are celebrated and encouraged, I do believe it is inevitable that the group identity that others (a majority) will fall back upon will be some form of 'white British' or 'white English'.' ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

An interesting thread on flags, about which I have also blogged. ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

A new thread. Further issues with job adverts (again in Music), trying to enforce a particular political agenda in order for candidates to be successful.

Thanks to various friends for feedback on earlier drafts of this blog post. On flags, and the sorts of things about England/Britain in which it would be right to take some pride. ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

‘There are parts of England, such as the North-East or South-West, which lack large minority populations and are extremely economically depressed, and whose populations feel ignored and despised. These are the heartlands of the ‘white working class’’ ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

‘While other countries such as France and Germany phased in free movement, Blair allowed it ‘in a stroke’ in 2004… It is possible to bring the wider public along with major new waves of migration, but it has to be done carefully and sensitively’ ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

‘the real tension may be between the ‘settled’ (of multiple ethnicities) who feel they have made their contribution to society, through work, paying taxes, etc. and those more recent arrivals who may claim benefits without having made such a contribution.’ ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

‘Scotland was intimately involved with the Empire at all levels, and yet this is not generally seen to taint Scottish nationalism or expressions of Scottishness’ ianpace.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/wha…

I want to read more about those involved in human trafficking, especially in the Balkans, including the types who drove that van in which hundreds suffocated to death. Any recommendations for books and articles?