Student Academics For Academic Freedom
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@StudentAFAF
Committed to defending free speech and academic expression. Membership open to all students in the UK and Ireland who want to fight for their rights.
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Over the past six months, Alumni for Free Speech (AFFS) has intensified its scrutiny of UK universities’ recruitment practices, focusing in particular on EDI-related requirements in academic job adverts. This matters because recruitment is a key moment at which institutional culture is set: the criteria used to select staff shape, over time, what can be thought, said, and researched within the academy. Where universities tell applicants they must “demonstrate” a commitment to EDI, particularly as an “essential” criterion, they risk serious #freespeech compliance failures under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act. AFFS has written repeatedly to universities where we identify such practices, warning that these requirements are likely unlawful or non-compliant and, where institutions have refused to change course, has reported them to the Office for Students. That pressure is already having an effect. A significant number of universities have taken substantive steps to bring themselves into compliance — an indication of what sustained, targeted campaigning can achieve. Our interim update sets out more of what we’ve been doing over the past six months: affs.uk/wp-content/upl… You can also join AFFS here — it’s completely free! affs.uk/join
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I have decided to escalate my complaint against the BBC over David Olusoga’s Empire. Its first response was dismissive and unsatisfactory. It misreported my argument, answered straw men of its own making, and failed to reckon seriously with the Corporation’s own standards of impartiality. This is no longer only a question about one tendentious programme. It is also a question about whether the BBC is willing to confront serious criticism honestly, accurately, and in the spirit of the editorial standards it expects others to respect. Read my account at The Biggar Picture: nigelbiggar.co.uk/p/why-im-escal…
My university issued a trigger warning for ‘chocolate addiction’… telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…
.@edballs challenges Minister for Equalities Olivia Bailey about why the government hasn't updated the guidance for single sex spaces following the Supreme Court's ruling.
Imagine the horror of your children being murdered or injured at their dance class and then for the inquiry to determine the attack could have been prevented if the authorties heeded “clearly, repeatedly and unambiguously signposted” warnings. Major change needed
