Tag Archive: Cancel Culture
The Elon Musk Witch Hunt is a Key Test for the Royal Society
The Elon Musk witch hunt is a key test for the Royal Society, says Prof Abhishek Saha. Activist academics are piling on the pressure to expel the technological pioneer. Does the society stand for science or not?
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Smug Lefties Most Likely To Think They’re Right And Everyone Else Is Wrong
Left-wing activists in Britain are less likely to work with their political opponents and more likely to think that those who think differently have been misled, a study has found. Leftists are intolerant? Who knew.
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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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The Woke Professor Trying to Get Elon Musk Expelled From the Royal Society
The professor leading the campaign to remove Elon Musk from the Royal Society has form. He used to be a diversitycrat at Imperial, where he weaponised EDI to force other academics to parrot radical progressive dogma.
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Priest Calvin Robinson Kicked Out of Church for Doing Elon Musk ‘Salute’ at Rally
TV presenter and priest Calvin Robinson has been kicked out of his church after doing an Elon Musk 'salute' at a pro-life rally in what he said was clearly intended as a joke.
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Seventy-Five Years After Orwell, Fighting for Free Speech is as Crucial as Ever
To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of George Orwell, Laura Perrins interviews Toby – now Lord Young – about the prospects for free speech in the age of Starmer and Trump.
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Labour U-Turns Over University Free Speech as it Brings Back Tory Law – But Removes its “Teeth”
Labour has U-turned over university free speech as it brings back a Tory law clamping down on 'woke' cancel culture – but removes its "teeth" by dropping the ability of academics to sue their institutions.
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The Appalling Treatment of Covid Vaccine Whistleblower Dr. Byram Bridle
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson write about the appalling treatment of Covid vaccine whistleblower Dr Byram Bridle, the Canadian immunologist who was removed from duties for raising the alarm about the vaccine.
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Covid Vaccine Critic Doctor Barred From Medicine
Dr. Daniel Armstrong has had his name erased from the U.K. Medical Register and been barred from practice for making a video in which he argued that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, untested and cause harm.
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The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship
Mark Zuckerberg's repudiation of Covid-era censorship is welcome. But it's not enough, say Josh Stylman and Jeffrey Tucker. Without a public reckoning they will just do it all again when a cause seems urgent enough.
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