Category: News
Academics have internalised the fatwa. It is time to defend free speech, no ifs, no buts.
In a little over a week the attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie has vanished from the headlines. At the outset there were condemnations of the attack declaring it a […]
The Bartlett Report: Anonymous accusations and public shaming
Austin Williams* In a report that has taken six months to compile, Howlett Brown, which self-identifies as “The UK’s only people intelligence consultancy” has delivered a devastating critique of the Bartlett School […]
Bill of Rights Bill 2022
PRESS RELEASE dated: 23 June 2022 Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) say the government’s proposed Bill of Rights should go further – and prioritise free speech above all freedoms […]
How to set up an AFAF branch
If you are an individual who wants to defend free speech and academic freedom, it is possible to be wary of ‘putting your head above the parapet’. However, there is […]
Foundation For Individual Rights and Expression
On 6 June 2022, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announced that it would become the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. FIRE – a ‘Friend’ of AFAF – is America’s leading […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
