Tag Archive: Academia

Political Scientists Blame Misinformation on “Radical Right Populism”

According to a new political science article highlighted in the Guardian, "Misinformation and radical-Right populism must henceforth be understood as inextricable". Apparently, everyone else always only tells the truth.

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Conservative Academics Are Still Self-Censoring, Says New Report

A new survey has found that conservative academics are still much more likely to self-censor. More than half said they "hide their political beliefs from other faculty in an attempt to keep their jobs".

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Why are Brits Funding Foreign Students?

Why are Brits splurging millions each year funding foreign PhD students to do research in such non-critical areas as "the impact of race, class, gender and coloniality in child-centred learning", asks Charlotte Gill.

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Academia Fights Back in the War on DEI

As major corporations see the light over DEI and Trump flushes it out of the US Government, true to form, academia is manning the woke barricades in its determination to fight back, says Dr Roger Watson.

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Black Coal, White Guilt: Mining the Dark Depths of ‘Anti-Racist’ Geology

Queen Mary University of London has hit a new low in its introduction of 'Inhuman Geography', where snow-capped mountains and dark underground mines are treated as evidence of 'white racism', says Steven Tucker.

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What a PhD on the “Politics of Smell” Tells Us About How Elites Use Obscure Woke Gobbledegook to Exclude the People From Power

When a PhD on the "politics of smell" trended on X recently it exposed how elites use pretentious woke gobbledegook to exclude the people from power, much like previous generations used Latin and Greek, says Steven Tucker.

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University “Sacks” Economist Who Wrote Paper Criticising Mass Immigration Policy

Economist Prof Steve Fothergill has said he was "sacked" by Sheffield Hallam University after writing a paper that criticised UK immigration policy for allowing large numbers of jobs to be taken by foreigners.

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The Process is the Punishment: The Case of Pearson v Essex Police

Essex police has dropped its investigation into Allison Pearson. Ex-copper Dominic Adler gives an insider's view of what has likely been going on behind the scenes, where, as he explains, the process is the punishment.

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The Campaign to ‘Decolonise’ Exams by Letting Students Sit Their Own Personalised Ones They Can’t Fail

In another case of 'you couldn't make it up', there's a campaign underway to 'decolonise' exams by letting students sit their own personalised ones they could never fail. What could possibly go wrong, asks Steven Tucker.

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Meet the ‘Transableists’: Able-Bodied Men Who Identify as Disabled Women

If you thought transgenderism was crazy, wait till you meet the 'transableists' – able-bodied people who (sincerely, it seems) identify as disabled, with some even lopping off limbs or blinding themselves.

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