Sorry, but the real problem is not students but collaborationist administrators and academics and their colleagues who keep silent. How many academics at Sussex went public to defend Stock & the principle of academic freedom?
I really wish that for once, primary schools were told to teach children how to read, acquire a love for books, learn to count & learn about their history.
BBC refers to the murderers who killed this woman as 'Hamas Fighters' ! This publicly funded institution has lost sight of the distinction between a fighter and the perpetrators of an atrocity on on ordinary civilians
The behaviour of the Metropolitan Police in this incident is both cowardly and disgusting. It is cowardly because they would rather appease the Pro Hamas marchers than protect the right to peaceful protest
As someone who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, I really resent when people opportunistically plunder its memory for petty political point scoring.
Today we remember the victims of the Holocaust. This tragedy was the worst example of what extreme nationalism can lead to. The European Union was created to ensure this will never happen again
#WeAreEurope
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#HolocaustMemorialDay
A really silly idea - contrary to Blair's claim - this would be an effective way of lowering productivity. A nation of baristas with degrees that are not worth the paper they are printed on.
Whatever the limits of Johnson's statement- the reaction is far worse, It reflects a distaste for exercising discretion a disbelief that people have common sense & can be trusted to use their judgment.
Paradox - the people who have complained for 4 Years about Trump interfering in British policies are now encouraging Biden to exercise his influence over Brexit negotiations. They are very selective about who gets to interfere in another nation's affairs.
Listening to PM's press conference- it seems that media is egging on the Government to impose a total lock down - whereas Government is more aware of importance of having the freedom of the outdoors.
At least somebody refuses to roll over and embrace the ritual of an anachronistic empty gesture. Spain refuses to apologise for conquering Mexico five hundred years ago via
@telegraphnews
How a once serious academic institution has turned into a clinic for producing low-level psychosis. Best example of the tragic trend towards the moral disintegration of higher education.
Sunak and others have developed a relation of equivalence between 'Far Right Thugs and Hamas supporters'. They invented the threat of far right thugs in order to distract attention from the challenge posed by supporters of Hamas. Why? I assume it is because either they are scared
Harvard Athletics stands with Penn Athletics, and the Ivy League, in the support of all student-athletes and in rejecting hate and transphobia in our community.
@zei_squirrel
Very profound from you- after all your mates only murdered 250 of the young festival goers - no doubt punishment for daring to dance to techno music
This is how the administrative state works In Scotland - 5 government funded groups invited for 'consultation' to create the impression that policy makers actually listen. Nauseating.
Decolonising Beethoven or Wagner has nothing to do with colonies or slavery - it is entirely motivated by an unrestrained impulse to de-legitimate every dimension of Europe's cultural legacy.
I wrote this because the hatred directed at classical music is driven by an impulse to tear out the soul -not just of of European culture - but of the Enlightenment.
If Rowling is not allowed to be true to herself and say that what she sees is a man and not a woman society is in big trouble. Whether someone is a woman is determined by biology and not by a silly law
It is this kind of so-called study that demonstrates the brain-dead character of so much funded research in the social sciences and the humanities.
Shakespeare made theatre too 'white, male and cisgender', study finds
@pritipatel
@UKLabour
Reads like a jumped-up totalitarian's ultimatum - 'either accept our version of what it means to be black or you are cast out of society'!
Many don't seem to understand that her performance of hating whites is just another way of expressing the new cultural conformism of simpletons obsessed with identity politics.She is not racist just a schmuck. NY Times stands by 'racist tweets' reporter
The word 'dead' is even more interesting than her philistine contempt for knowledge based curriculum. Detaching students from the past serves as a recipe for subjecting them to the hegemony of fad; the shallow diversity of pedagogic fads.
Everytime I hear someone use the term 'white people' you can tell that they believe that it is an intrinsically pejorative term. It has become a way of expressing 21st century prejudice. White people = source of all evil.
BREAKING:
Hamas displays kidnapped Israeli children in cages as they laugh about it. It's estimated there're hundreds of Israeli citizens, mostly women and children, held hostage in Gaza Strip.
Currently, more than 600 Israelis have been killed as the conflict enters day two.
I admired Prince Phillip. In a discussion on outdoor adventure and risk taking he told me how sad it was that so many dimension of human experience get labeled by risk-averse campaigners as a 'risk'. RIP!!!!!
At some point this organisation has given up on its mission of protecting children and embraced trans ideology and is now complicit in the sexuialisation and adultification of children.
NSPCC whistleblower quits charity over trans grooming row claims
Maybe university chiefs could devote a bit of their energy to improving the quality of higher education instead of imposing their prejudice on their academic community. University chief bans all beef from campus in fight against 'climate change emergency'
When the reality of woman of the species is denied human civilisation itself is called into question. 'How do we stop this' is the challenge facing normal rational people.
Badenoch is absolutely right - she understands academic research standards more than the ideologically motivated academic supporters of this so-called study.
However this so-called 'tiny minority' has a disproportionate impact on the media, institutions of culture and education- which has a powerful influence on public life and policy.
Only the beginning. The medicalising of childhood will continue to disempower children and erode their capacity to deal with the problems of existence. Only a society that has lost its way can embrace this form of socialisation.
The most important event in my life-the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 broke out today. The love of freedom shown by those who fought the Stalinist dictatorship inspires me to this day.
Only a matter of time before these schmucks at the Home Office decide to celebrate foot-binding day.
‘Tone deaf’ Home Office marked World Hijab Day despite guidance on forced dress code ‘persecution’
This is surreal. You want to know about pressure- try working in a call centre, a mine, a hospital, a factory. Articles like this unwittingly cultivate a sense of helplessness & disorientation amongst a relatively privileged section of society and turn campuses into a clinic.
For academics and students alike, pressure to perform coupled with a lack of institutional support can severely affect mental health:
@sophie_inge
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@THEuniadvice
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These gestures are so unnecessary. Why should anyone who is alive today bear responsibility for injustices committed 10 centuries ago. In any case they can never put right what the church did in the past. Concentrate on the evils of today.
What I worry about is the declining status of the warrior ethos in the army The social engineering project designed to portray the army as just another normal institution diminishes its capacity to defend the nation's interest. Its Ok for the post office to be normal-not the army
Colonel Tim Collins: The ludicrous and dangerous morass into which obsequious and PC-addled senior officers have led the British Army is a source of real concern to every citizen of the nation
#premium
Events in Israel have demonstrated that many think there is something called an 'excusable pogrom'.
@Furedibyte
explains the rise of a barbaric worldview.
It's not just a software mistake. Inexorable consequence of an attitude that confuses worst case thinking with most likely outcomes. Scaremongering masquerading as science!
The mainstream media does not get it or refuses to acknowledge the fact that the real issue is not radicalised extreme right wing thugs but the powerful corrosive influences that that undermine Irish society.
Irish police chief warns of further disruption by far right after
Education continues to give way to indoctrination in our schools. Reminds me of my childhood in Hungary during the Stalinist era, where we had to learn about the privilege of class enemies.
Advocacy researchers know in advance what they look for. Can you imagine university researchers ever concluding that they found no racism?
Grievance Archaeology will find that needle of racism in the haystack & turn it into TV programme.
There was a time when the left was actually left - and took democracy seriously. Listen to Tony Benn-arguably the most principled figure in the old Labour Left.
"There are men who give their lives for the right to self government, independence, democracy. We are being invited to give up those rights..."
Tony Benn, Secretary of State for Industry, on Britain's membership of the
#European
Common Market.
#Brexit
#PeoplesVote
This seems like an incredibly stupid initiative. It transforms pupils to become potential mental health patients and encourages them to become obsessed about their emotional state. What a way to mess kids up.
First you have the racialisation of everything -now you have the medicalisation of racism. It is as if the western world is haunted by a morally illiterate obsession with human pathologies.
Closing schools massive mistake! Don't blame Gov-they were under tremendous pressure to do the wrong thing. Best response to a disaster is to strengthen community & schools are at its heart! Closures further fragment community- just when we need solidarity
Listen to BBC Today programme. Everyone uses the word 'surprise' to describe the disintegration of Afghanistan's Potemkin Government. What dishonest airheads? Surprise? Anyone with slightest grasp of the situation knew that there was nothing to stop the Taliban
Interesting to note that the mainstream media report of the shooting of Fico is very different to the way they discuss violent attacks directed on centrist politicians. Little sympathy, no talk of the threat posed by political violence instead Fico is condemned as Putin's man.
No it should not! We should not seeks to criminalise views - no matter how abhorrent - that we disagree with it. Rely on sound arguments rather than the language police.
Despite all the talk about stopping the slide of universities down the pit of philistine wokeness the situation is getting worse and worse.
Outcry as university tells staff to teach that whiteness and heterosexuality are a problem
An out of touch technocrat who represents no one but people like him.
Leo Varadkar resigns as Irish prime minister 'for personal and political reasons'
From this standpoint a conservative who takes tradition and communal values seriously is automatically a bigot. Bigotry is defines as unreasonable religious zeal & the author of this piece exemplifies the bigotry of zealous anti-conservatism.
My new book will be published end of October. It is written for everyone interested in defending democracy against the anti-populist forces of cancel culture. Pre-order it now
The rewriting of history through subjecting medieval England to contemporary fadish views about intersectionality turns the past into a playground for practicing grievance archeology. Projecting contemporary prejudice on the past drives this new sport.
‘Racism in medieval
We all know why they are not in prison- because the criminal justice system applies different standards to different types of protest. Theirs is a risk-free protest. The only people who pay a price are normal people trying to get on with their lives
@TitaniaMcGrath
It's true images of lean looking footballers sends out the wrong message and undermines the self-esteem so many people. There must be a quota of at leat two seriously heavy players on each team.