Category: News
An Open Letter on the Government’s Proposed Definition of “Islamophobia”
We, organisations from across the moral, political and ideological spectrum, including faith groups and secular organisations, write to express serious concern about the UK Government’s ongoing efforts to adopt a […]
Academic freedom has been shredded at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Jane Mahony denounces the cowardly indifference of Trinity College Dublin to academic freedom and to its own consultative processes. On 5 June the board of Trinity College Dublin voted […]
Why the Equality Act isn’t working
In this guest post, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, discusses the new report from Don’t Divide Us One of the final pieces of legislation from the New Labour era, the Equality […]
Oxford is now more or less a quango
In this guest post, Darren Gee discusses the reforms needed to restore ‘genuine academic freedom’. There is an increasingly palpable sentiment that the elite educational institutions across the Western world […]
International Academic Freedom Day: AFAF and SAFAF Online Gathering
Sean Parker* gives a personal snapshot of the AFAF and SAFAF online gathering on International Academic Freedom Day 20 May 2025 “There is no university in the country that will […]
A call for institutional neutrality
A letter to all UK Universities from the London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom, Alumni for Free Speech, Academics For Academic Freedom, Committee for Academic Freedom, Pharos Foundation, Student Academics […]
Meet the groups leading the free speech fight-back against Britain’s ‘institutionally captured’ universities
James Saunders wrote a long piece for GB News on the free speech fightback in universities. Here, with permission, we publish a short taster. In his article James also discuss […]
No Forbidden Zones
What the case of Frances Widdowson tells us about academic freedom in Canadian Universities A guest long read from Tyrel Cameron Eskelson* Academic freedom ended at Calgary’s Mount Royal University […]