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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This is not meaningfully different from the “for all I care” post by @LucyTCWife
But I can guarantee she won’t be interviewed by police, spend a single moment in a police cell - let alone 30 months - in fact, she’ll probably get an MBE.
It’s called brown privilege.
Islamic cry bullies have it in spades.
I see Zack Polanski has labelled Restore Britain 'extremists'.
The real extremist position is to willingly import savage third world animals who attempt to behead others in the street.
Just my thoughts.
The white victim did not lose an eye.
He did not inadvertently leave it somewhere.
The standby bastard illegal gouged it out with a f*cking Stanley knife.
@BBC YOUR LIES ARE FUELLING FIRES.
British Establishment media are torching white Brits.
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.
🇬🇧 The Sudanese migrant who set off one of the biggest national protests in British history after he tried to behead an Irishman in Belfast 2 days ago has been named and charged with attempted murder.
30-year-old Hadi Alodid appeared in a Belfast court this morning.
Writer: Mhedi
Tim Dillon on the Henry Nowak killing and the UK's two-tier policing:
"Official guidance documents from bodies like the College of Policing and the National Police Chief's Council state that equality and fairness are sometimes achieved through equity rather than by treating everyone the same.
Cops don't even know what that means.
Now we're asking them to take all of these other considerations into account about what is the historical trauma that might be playing out here, and on what scale.
No offense to cops, but they're not the brightest people.
A cop really should just respond to the facts on the ground, and some of them can't even do that."
Source: @TimJDillon / Writer: Ian
This twat imports the problem, dumps murderers and rapists into our communities, then whines about what is and is not acceptable?
This WANKER has to go!!!!
#TwoTierKeir
🇬🇧 The UK government is going to pay British firms £5k for every foreign worker they employ, while young Brits battle a jobs crisis
They're set to announce that "high-growth" businesses will get up to £25,000 in subsidised visa costs for highly-skilled workers hired from overseas.
Meanwhile, young British graduates are already facing the worst jobs market in a generation.
Starmer's government really does hate Brits
Source: GB News / Writer: Ian
We have to shield democracy from disinformation, says @vonderleyen. In truth, her Orwellian "Democracy Shield" is about shielding the European Commission from democracy. And now, reveals @Pauline__Voss, the EU is financing "news" propaganda outfits to demand more censorship.
Message to Starmer and the police:
You have attacked those protesting.
There would have been no protests if our borders had been enforced.
That evil man would not have been in the country and a British citizen would not be in hospital with life threatening injuries.
The fault lies with government.
Imagine a country that can’t prevent a Sudanese man who has molested children gaining right to remain.
That is Britain today.
Successive governments have conspired in this dangerous farce.
The human rights of illegal migrants trump the rights of British people.
It’s sick.
As the blood of another Brit still stains the streets of Belfast.
Starmer's regime has begun mass jailing the English for the protest in Southampton.
Connor Bishop, 24, jailed for two years and eight months and Leon O'Leary, 41(pictured) jailed for three years and one month.
🇬🇧🇨🇳 A Chinese tracking device was reportedly planted in the UK Prime Minister's official car, MPs were told this week.
The bug sat in a sealed, China-made part of the vehicle back in 2022, quietly beaming location data to Beijing through its cellular module, according to China expert Charles Parton's testimony to the Commons.
It's still not clear which of that year's 3 Tory PMs, Johnson, Truss, or Sunak, was the target.
Parton's warning went bigger: these modules are in everything now, from cars to doorbells, and whoever controls them could shut your vehicle off at will.
Source: Daily Mail / Writer: Julie
Wait. Hold the phone.
Starmer’s government has been hiding more decapitations?
…of young girls too?
No wonder they are worried about riots.
This is genuinely horrifying. I want to vomit.