Search results

More evidence that there are people in academia who appear totally divorced from reality and find offence in the most bizarre of things. This isn't just a car-crash of an interview, it's a 12 car pile-up with an Oxford physics professor trying (and failing) to explain why he reported a speech by...

I take what you say but I do think it's a little semantic to say it was a parent and not the school. The school were first alerted by the parent for sure but they were the ones who pulled it and by doing so banned it. I don't see the need for it even being temporarily removed. It's such an...

There's a long history of that happening, isn't there? John Lennon's "Woman is the N-word of the world" didn't go down too well. Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" was changed for the single version. This knee-jerk reaction of trying to ban something because it's offensive rather than...

Yep. Up until now it's more or less been required reading for American children as a way of getting them to understand historical race relations in the States and the anti-racism message is loud and clear throughout. Edit - also under attack is Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn...

More proof that education and academia is where regressive liberalism is at its strongest. It's things like this particular book banning that makes society less tolerant, less open, less free. It also paves the way for people like Trump and Farage to rise to the top...

I understand why you say she's transphobic but I think that's a rather loaded phrase and it does lump her in into a group that I don't think she deserves. Like you, I completely disagree with her view regarding trans people. I do believe that people can be born into the wrong body which is...

How about this one? It always makes me chuckle

The 'clapping causes anxiety' http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32032291/students-swap-clapping-for-jazz-hands-at-nus-event 'Gay men appropriating black women culture' http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/03/28/nus-conference-condemns-drag-and-tells-gay-men-to-stop-acting-like-black-women/...

The best example of Generation Snowflake can be found with millennials at UK and US campuses with their triggers, safe spaces and intolerance to views that don't accord with theirs. A case in point was the NUS women's conference last year where delegates were encouraged not to clap but to wave...

And hear we have a classic case of a knee-jerk reaction that the Daily Mail must be to blame whatever the problem is. And by the responses that you've got, it looks like you're wrong that it has never happened outside of a few isolated cases. I don't mean to have a pop but the one jumping to...