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A call for institutional neutrality

Meet the groups leading the free speech fight-back against Britain’s ‘institutionally captured’ universities

No Forbidden Zones

Tag: The Satanic Verses

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 […]

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