Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 16

RT by @NigelBiggar: Civil servant who blows whistle on Critical Race Theory infecting civil service --including event which excludes straight white men-- wins £100,000 in damages https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023...

Civil servant who blows whistle on Critical Race Theory infecting civil service --including event which excludes straight white men-- wins £100,000 in damages
telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05…

RT by @NigelBiggar: Most interesting result is this:

Most interesting result is this:

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RT by @NigelBiggar: Zoomers swallow noble savage myths, at odds with the violent reality

Zoomers swallow noble savage myths, at odds with the violent reality

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RT by @NigelBiggar: Kathleen Stock escorted by security to a debate at Oxford. Shame on all those academics who said we don't have a problem with free speech in our universities, who remained silent these last few years and who said sweet f*** all today.

Kathleen Stock escorted by security to a debate at Oxford. Shame on all those academics who said we don't have a problem with free speech in our universities, who remained silent these last few years and who said sweet f*** all today.
#highered
#KathleenStock

RT by @NigelBiggar: Going against the grain here. Yes, that's a cool image. But it's shocking, as well as upsetting and enraging, that a woman with left-leaning feminist views has to be escorted onto university premises as if she's some dangerous extremist

Going against the grain here. Yes, that's a cool image. But it's shocking, as well as upsetting and enraging, that a woman with left-leaning feminist views has to be escorted onto university premises as if she's some dangerous extremist.

RT by @NigelBiggar: If the mere prospect of someone as decent and civilised as @Docstockk talking drives you to "welfare rooms" stocked with ear plugs and energy bars, you might want to ask yourself if you're cut out for the intellectual challenge of highe

If the mere prospect of someone as decent and civilised as @Docstockk talking drives you to "welfare rooms" stocked with ear plugs and energy bars, you might want to ask yourself if you're cut out for the intellectual challenge of higher education telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05…

RT by @NigelBiggar: A Cloudy Afternoon on the Yorkshire Wolds. 16°C. Poppies.

A Cloudy Afternoon on the Yorkshire Wolds. 16°C. Poppies.

RT by @NigelBiggar: PM Rishi Sunak is this week expected to rubber-stamp the appointment of a new #freespeech 'tsar' with the power to fine universities if he finds them at fault – it’s Dr Arif Ahmed, a Cambridge philosophy professor with impeccable free s

PM Rishi Sunak is this week expected to rubber-stamp the appointment of a new #freespeech 'tsar' with the power to fine universities if he finds them at fault – it’s Dr Arif Ahmed, a Cambridge philosophy professor with impeccable free speech credentials!
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…

RT by @NigelBiggar: "The problems really come from the fact that academics had been too cowardly in the past."Michael Biggs is right. Academics who avoid debate and appease the authoritarians who try to silence Kathleen Stock have forgotten what universi

"The problems really come from the fact that academics had been too cowardly in the past."

Michael Biggs is right. Academics who avoid debate and appease the authoritarians who try to silence Kathleen Stock have forgotten what universities are for.
bbc.co.uk/news/education-657…

RT by @NigelBiggar: My BBC Extra podcast on empire:https://www.historyextra.com/period/g...

My BBC Extra podcast on empire:

historyextra.com/period/gene…

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