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A book launch at the University of Edinburgh has gone ahead despite attempts at intimidation by trans activists.

Cipla’s cheap antiretroviral drugs had saved the lives of millions of AIDS sufferers in Africa. The pharmaceutical company also played a major role during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Principal Todd Walker of the University of the Highlands and Islands has brought forward his departure date to this week.

UHI principal Professor Todd Walker had sparked a row by saying all "vanity courses" would be ditched - and now UHI lecturers fear cuts.

Share Labour had raised concerns over comments made by universities minister Michelle Donelan (pictured) during a BBC Radio 4 interview, in which she was asked about how the reforms would impact upon the ability of Holocaust deniers to speak on campuses Speaking during the Queens Speech debate, Mr Williamson added: We know that anti-Semitic activity and anti-Semitism are not to be tolerated.  Academics and politicians who have been cancelled at UK universities Universities have been dogged in ...

Professor Peter Mathieson has created an intolerant and illiberal cancel culture  Lecturers at Edinburgh University are left feeling unable to speak out, staff claim Comes after investigation into lecturer Neil Thin who students blasted as racist One professor at Edinburgh university said countless others support Dr Thin But they fear doing so publicly due to potential backlash from others at the uni

An Oxford University professor today accused college institutions of dismal failure  over freedom of speech - and claimed they cynically adopted diversity policies as a badge for marketing. Professor Selina Todd, 47, spoke as the government announced plans for a free speech champion to ensure universities in England do not stifle it. But academic Prof Todd, who teaches modern history at Oxford, questioned whether it would have any effect given recent events. The professor - who was no-platform...

The Oxford Pride parade 2019. Dozens of transgender people join the annual event. Picture: Richard Cave AN OXFORD historian is embarked on a project to prove it is ‘essential’ that ‘sex’ is protected as the only legal definition of a woman. Selina Todd is hoping to stop people from being allowed to choose their own gender under the Equality Act. She warns that if people can legally change their gender it will make it impossible to collect viable data about differences between men...

Oxford University biggest funder of anti-trans group OXFORD University has paid a £20,000 consultancy fee to a womens rights group accused of being anti-transgender, making the university the biggest single financial supporter of the group. The money was paid to Womans Place UK earlier this year for its support research into women’s sex based rights as part of a new research programme announced in September. The group has been the subject of much controversy over its views on transgen...