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Solidarity with Kathleen Stock, Defend Academic Freedom

Should we cancel Cancel Culture?

Statement on ‘Gender Ideology’

The UK’s Charlie Hebdo moment

The Shadow University

The Secretive University

Solidarity with Kathleen Stock, Defend Academic Freedom

We are an ad hoc group of people involved in the University College Union (UCU) who, now or in the past, have served in elected national or local branch positions. […]

28th October 202128th October 2021 Dennis Hayes News

Should we cancel Cancel Culture?

This forthcoming debate is part of Buxton Battle of Ideas festival and is sponsored by AFAF. Find out more here. From China to UK universities, the Taliban to Trump, it seems […]

22nd October 202122nd October 2021 Dennis Hayes News

Statement on ‘Gender Ideology’

AFAF welcomes this statement form the National Asociation of Scholars in the US. Given current attacks on philosophers and others for questioning aspects of this ‘ideology’ in the UK, it […]

16th October 202116th October 2021 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

The UK’s Charlie Hebdo moment

The decision to lift the suspension of the Batley Grammar School teacher does not necessarily mean he can safely return to work. As the second half term begins, we do […]

6th June 202122nd November 2021 Dennis Hayes News

The Shadow University

Richard Harris and Dennis Hayes discuss the threat to freedom of speech in what thay call the ‘shadow university’. In 1998, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate wrote a […]

12th February 202114th February 2021 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

The Secretive University

Stephen Baskerville discusses how US universities create secretive devices to silence academic heretics The most effective method for protecting academic freedom is almost certainly publicity.  (Tenure has not worked; neither […]

12th February 202113th February 2021 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

UCU Elections 2021: Vote Benjamin for Academic Freedom

In the forthcoming University and College Union (UCU) National Executive Committee Elections 2021 there is one candidate who believes that defending academic freedom should be a major priority for UCU. […]

6th February 202124th March 2021 Dennis Hayes UCU

How to defend free speech in universities

Free speech is a hotly debated topic currently in the university sector. Dennis Hayes discusses why speech is censored and what can be done to tackle it.* A new report […]

14th January 202114th January 2021 Dennis Hayes free speech, News, universities

Remember Samuel Paty

This is the text of a talk given by Dennis Hayes at the Freedom Babbleon organised and hosted by WorldWrite on 19 December 2020 I recently gave a talk at […]

10th January 202110th January 2021 Dennis Hayes free speech

Freedom of Speech and its Consequences

Philip Hammond As a journalism lecturer, I was struck by the comment made recently by Karl Turner MP, that: “Of course everyone has the right to freedom of expression. But that […]

3rd December 20203rd December 2020 Dennis Hayes free speech, News

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