Prof Ian Pace

This is the organisation the gender-identity activists took down. In 1977 Amnesty International was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their defence of human dignity against torture. They went from that to hounding women for talking about women's rights. amnesty.org.uk/about/who-we-a…

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@ProfAliceS @UCLwomenslib I’m a bit disappointed @lucaf_london isn’t on the list!

Any list that brings together the Communist Party, Mumsnet and British Triathlon has got to be worth being on. @uclwomenslib are there too 💪.

This tweet sums up the degeneracy of the particular section of the left that Novara etc represents. She thinks that the IRGC, which funds, trains, supplies and directs Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, which murders people in Iran and across the planet, and which radicalises young Muslims here and elsewhere, isn't a terrorist organisation. These people are lost.

Today we publish our detailed report showing that, due to AFFS pressure, 36 universities have now scrapped the need for job applicants to show support for EDI. @AFAF_freespeech @StudentAFAF @lucaf_london Full details here affs.uk/edi-reqts-in-r…

Universities ‘keep EDI hiring requirements’ despite law change. @AFFSUK timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

Several English universities have declined to remove diversity requirements from their hiring practices despite the risk of falling foul of new free speech rules, a campaign group has alleged after reviewing job adverts #highered #EDI timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

"Presumably Rouse doesn’t exactly mean to invoke the outdated sexological concept of the third sex, by which the existence of gay people would, I suppose, refute the claim that sex is binary, but it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that she thinks something about gayness both complicates biological sex binarism and affords insight into it."

You won’t find a single book that has actually been “banned” here. The left’s cancellation crusade during BLM and MeToo lead to the total erasure of numerous books, including my own. It also destroyed mainstream publishing by introducing “sensitivity readers” and “morality clauses” in author contracts. “Banned” is yet another word they’ve inverted to push anti-Western civilization ideologies. Cultural termites.

Very important - on the new report from @AFFSUK which shows how hires requiring a commitment to EDI, an issue specifically addressed in the OfS guidance on HEFSA, still continue. Stronger action is needed against politicised hiring processes. timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

'During that viva, Keehan, an Irishman who grew up on a deprived council estate, was criticised by representatives of two English universities as a “Western, white, male researcher” whose thesis had failed to reflect on “privileges associated with race and cultural dominance” apparently attaching to his own identity.'

🚨 BREAKING: The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) is supporting a working-class student who left school at 13 and spent years saving and studying after work to get into university, but who may now be forced to abandon his PhD after being frozen out on an art programme. His “crime”? Introducing the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton into a seminar on aesthetics. Matthew Keehan, who studies at Solent University, says disagreements over the dominance of critical race theory and other “progressive” philosophies on his course escalated into ostracism by his peers, disciplinary threats and a politically charged viva. Trouble began when, ahead of an in-person seminar on art and aesthetics, he circulated Roger Scruton’s Fools, Frauds and Firebrands to the group. Matthew argued that academia had for too long excluded important conservative voices, and said he wanted students to hear a wider “cacophony” of perspectives. When no one replied, he followed up with a link to Scruton’s lecture “Art Today”, which critiques the way postmodern approaches have, in Scruton’s view, hollowed out artistic standards. Again, no one responded. During the seminar, Matthew asked whether anyone had read the material, and was told by the lecturer — who also happened to be his supervisor — that “we felt it was inappropriate”. Months later, a fellow postgraduate reached out and told him that members of the group had effectively been advised not to contact him because of the “C word” — “Conservative” — following his circulation of the Scruton material. It was in this culture that concerns later arose over Matthew’s PhD viva. During that viva, Matthew — an Irishman who grew up on a deprived council estate — was criticised as a “Western, white, male researcher” whose work had failed to reflect on the “privileges associated with race and cultural dominance” supposedly attaching to his identity. CAF has been supporting Matthew in making a formal complaint to the university about the culture of his department and his treatment after raising concerns about the intellectual direction of the course. We are also helping him prepare a complaint to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator and a formal notification to the Office for Students. We’ve written more about this shocking case for @TheCriticMag here: thecritic.co.uk/solent-mean/ To keep up to date with Matthew’s case, and with CAF’s wider work supporting academics and students facing censorship, ideological discrimination and threats to academic freedom, sign up to our free newsletter here: afcomm.org.uk/updates-from-t… @ProfAliceS @drianpace @epkaufm @Fox_Claire @NigelBiggar @LauraTrottMP @ObhishekSaha

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This definitely applies to literature, especially to the English-language canon.

How academia excludes the working classes in 2026. Excellent, if very sad, piece by Freddie Attenborough on the plight of a working class PhD student who dared to notice and question others' blinkers. 🙏@drianpace for flagging it.

Liverpool-born, London Jazz singer, critic and writer George Melly: an enthralling story-teller, he featured on many chat shows and published many autobiographical stories. Barry Humphries was an admirer

This was my first Question for Short Debate (QSD), selected by ballot, so I was more formal (& nervously awkward) than my usual style. But glad to highlight crucial themes in @Freedom_in_Arts report on New Boycott Crisis by @RosieKayK2CO, @DeniseFahmy & @JoPhoenix1. It was so gratifying to hear fantastic speeches on dangers of new forms of censoring arts from other Lords. And the minister at least acknowledged some key issues like cancellation of Jewish artists although rather less so RE silencing gender-critical artists. Also she didn't engage with my points on weaponisation of EDI in arts or how euphemism of hate speech is used to silence dissenters. But good to chip away in the name of artistic freedom.

One of Sam Neill’s best films.

You only need to ask Keith’s mum to know that, factually, there are different types of ‘sexes’ and ‘genders’. And Mr Hart on the No. 10 bus knows it too.