For those who do not believe that academic freedom and free speech are under attack on university campuses, look no further than the case of Dr Michael Foran.
Foran, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, has announced that he was forced to cancel the remaining two lectures in his four-part series on gender law after being subjected to sustained abuse, harassment and disruption from trans activists.
Activists disrupted two out of the four planned lectures by walking to the front of the room, addressing the audience directly, denouncing Foran as a bigot and a transphobe, and urging attendees to walk out.
The protesters then declared — both hypocritically and hysterically — that Foran “will not be convinced by your arguments”.
Surely, if these students wanted to prove their point — or expose flaws in the lecturer’s position — they should have listened to the lecture and engaged in debate during the question-and-answer session.
It is time we called these activists what they are: militant authoritarians who deploy a heckler’s veto. So uncomfortable are they with open debate that they seek to silence those who choose to follow the law rather than conform to their worldview.
And what has the University of Oxford had to say? Very little of substance. Universities must do more than pay lip service to their legal obligations to protect free speech.
Indeed, an anonymous source from the university who attended the lectures has claimed that the Proctors’ Office gave permission for the protests to proceed.
Enough is enough.
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The Belfast victim has lost his left eye and has severe damage to his right eye.
Hacked at the neck, with his eyes gouged.
Men who inflict this brutal evil on others do not deserve to live.
Jeff Banks is continuing his campaign to secure a minute’s silence for Henry Nowak before England’s opening World Cup match.
He is now calling on the editors of every national newspaper to get behind the proposal and encourage their readers to support it.
His argument is simple and a fair one, if football can unite to remember tragedies and victims from around the world, then surely it can take a moment to remember a young English lad whose death touched the hearts of so many people across the country.
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The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.
The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.
Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.
South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.
The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.
We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.
Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.
Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.
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Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.
I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.
Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.
I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"
You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.
⚠️£600,000 gone.
⚠️A former SNP chief executive convicted.
⚠️Ministers found in contempt of court.
Yet Swinney's priority is blocking inquiries.
What exactly is he afraid of?
I truly detest the BBC. Did they mention our rape gang inquiry hearings once? No. Not a word. Other than a response to the thousands and thousands of complaints they received over their lack of coverage.
Now?
They're writing up some nonsense hit piece on our Facebook presence, yet they have deliberately excluded us from their Question Time Makerfield event despite Restore clearly posing more of a threat than the Greens, Tories and Lib Dems combined. They got an invite. We did not.
The establishment utterly despises Restore Britain and I love it.
We are not in this to make friends in central London.
Restore Britain exists to destroy the rotten system that provides such a comfortable life for all of these people.
We are not here to reform, we are here to restore.
Ben Habib has just announced that Advance UK is taking a step back in order to allow the momentum behind Restore Britain to build.
Ben has previously endorsed Restore Britain in Makerfield, and I thank him for that.
I believe that Ben and the wider Advance UK membership are patriots who want the best for Britain - they are welcome in our Restore Britain family to help deliver the radical change that the country so desperately needs.
Ben and I have not always agreed on logistics over the last few months, that’s politics, but this is an incredibly principled decision and I have the utmost respect for what Ben has sacrificed to build Advance to where it is today.
For both Ben and I - it is country first, every single time.
It would be an honour to welcome Ben and the Advance UK membership into Restore Britain, but that is a decision for them and I will respect whatever they decide.
In the years to come, today will be seen as a significant event on Britain’s path to restoration.
Powell prophesied the River Tiber would foam with blood. They branded him a racist.
A river of blood ran down a Southampton street and a dying teenager’s hands were bound while it happened.
The diversity consultants, the civil servants, the activist academics, the politicians who built an entire ideological infrastructure around the idea that minority accusers must be believed and majority victims must wait. They are the ones with Henry Nowak’s blood on their hands. Not just the scum who plunged the knife… but every bureaucrat, every policy author, every smug commentator who sneered at Powell and then spent fifty years proving him right.
They will write their apologies, launch their inquiries, and hope you forget. They will use careful language and promise reviews and quietly move on.
Do not let them.
Henry Nowak was 18 years old. He deserved better than the world his country’s ruling class built.