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Cards on the table, I am an advocate of free speech and I don’t buy the recent rhetoric from sections of the left that the new public and political interest in free speech is a right-wing conspiracy. Instead I think the raised temperature of the debates on free speech from …

Some people can talk. I mean, they can really, really talk. For hours and hours. About absolutely nothing. My mother, for example, can talk pretty much anyone under the table. She is the chit-chat champion of the known universe. You’d realise she was in a totally different chit-chat stratosphere, for …

The scientists are waiting for authorization to launch a study comparing every Covid-19 vaccine that has been given the green light by the Swedish Medical Products Agency. They say that while those jabs were tested against a placebo, they haven’t been tested against each other to see how their attributes …

In the olden days, groups of white people who wanted to get together to talk race in North Carolina used to meet in the woods and burn crosses. Ku Klux Klan enclaves still exist in the state, but white supremacy has fallen out of fashion among the youth. Instead, those …

Footage published by RT’s video agency Ruptly shows students and police shoving each other during a heated confrontation at Bogazici University, in Istanbul. The officers used riot shields to contain the crowd, and one was seen throwing punches at a demonstrator. Amid shouting and isolated scuffles, several protesters were filmed …

A petition has begun circulating to demand that the university nullify the degrees of such graduates as Cruz (R-Texas), US Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The petitioners argued that by supporting President Donald Trump’s allegations that Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory was fraudulent, the …

The executive committee of Lehigh’s Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to rescind and revoke the honorary degree that was granted to Trump when he spoke at the $70,000-a-year private university’s commencement ceremony in 1988. With explicitly stating reasons for the decision, Lehigh suggested that Trump was at least partly …

Only a few more teaching days are left of this term, and as a lecturer with 10 years of experience at a British university, I can honestly say this year has been the toughest. Since September, universities, and students, have hardly been out of the news. Back then all the …

The university’s Regent House, which comprises academic and senior administrative staff, overwhelmingly backed three amendments concerning language in the institution’s ‘Statement on Freedom of Speech’.  The most controversial of the three proposed changes called for the statement to be altered to make it “clearer and more liberal”. The amendment took …

A vaccination program that discriminates based on race might seem a little Jim Crow, but it’s actually the kind of program being pushed by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Monday marked the start of National Influenza Vaccination week, but Cornell was ahead of the curve, requiring all students to …