Tag Archive: Academia

20/6/25

Universities Are a Conspiracy Against the Public

The problems with universities run deeper than free speech, says Professor James Alexander. They have become a conspiracy against the public: privileged, degraded, pandering institutions heading towards heat death.

19/6/25

Be Ready to be Shocked and Offended at University, Students Told as Free Speech Law Comes In

Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, Government free speech champion Arif Ahmed has said, as he warned universities they face fines from August if they fail to uphold free speech.

19/6/25

Pointless International Research – Paid For By You, The Taxpayer

From Weaving Our Own Justice in Colombia to Theatre-Making in Kenya, there seems no end to the international research projects lavishly funded by you, the hard-working taxpayer. Charlotte Gill compiles her top 10.

13/6/25

Woke Waste Has Become Even Worse Under Labour

Woke waste was bad under the Tories, but it's got even worse under Labour, says Charlotte Gill. Check out the millions being flushed down the drain on these pointless 'arts and humanities research projects'.

5/6/25

The Conservative Political Thinker Shunned for Being Right

Academics can be cruel to dissenters from 'progressive' dogma, even more so when they're right. Dr Michael Rainsborough pays tribute to his late friend Dr David Martin Jones, who deserves to be much more widely read.

5/6/25

Trump’s Attack on Harvard Could be a Turning Point in the Battle Against the Climate Cult

Trump's attack on Harvard could be a turning point in the battle against the capture of academia by a climate-industrial complex that serves globalist interests over those of ordinary citizens, says Dr Tilak Doshi.

24/5/25

Do Researchers’ Views on Immigration Affect the Results of Their Studies?

Academics lean heavily Left. Does this affect the results of their studies? A paper has found that researchers who support higher immigration are more likely to find results in line with that policy.

25/3/25

Publish or Be Damned

Academic publishing is in crisis. Now a multi-billion dollar industry where researchers pay journals to publish their papers, the old guarantees of quality and accuracy have been stripped away, says John MacNab.

4/3/25

Journal Retracts Paper That’s Unflattering to the Woke

A paper documenting the association between Left-wing views and poor mental health has been retracted on trumped-up grounds. One of the complaints is that the authors used "judgemental language".

24/2/25

Meltdown in the Scholarly Kitchen

"Censorship!" cry the censorious Left as the Trump administration clamps down on wokery in publicly-funded research. Dr Roger Watson fact-checks the latest dubious claims from the DEI industry about book and word "bans".

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