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Students are launching a nationwide project to champion free speech in universities over fears that debate is being stifled in favour of woke culture. It aims to address a free-speech crisis on campuses and encourage the young to embrace wide-ranging opinions without the fear of saying the wrong thing. The news comes after a survey found more than a quarter of students censored their own views on politics or ethical matters, and 40 per cent believed their careers would be harmed if they express...

Will Knowland, 37, was dismissed after he refused to take down an online lecture In it, he addressed radical feminism and the concept of toxic masculinity Mr Knowland was dismissed from his role after refusing to remove the video He now claims an disciplinary panel was stacked with close associates of head master Simon Henderson, who had been accused of implementing a woke agenda

Britain’s aircraft carriers have played a vital role SIR – Sir Max Hastings never misses an opportunity to have a dig at Britain’s aircraft carriers, most recently in a report about armoured recce vehicles (December 29). I am uncertain whether Sir Max has ever set foot on an aircraft carrier, but he will recall, as a writer about global conflict, that in the Second World War Germany, Italy and Japan could not have been defeated without the critical contribution of aircraft carriers in the...

Eton College was given legal advice that said it could report its dismissed Master to the anti-terrorism Prevent programme for allegedly advocating male supremacy and the glorification of violence. The elite £42,500-a-year public school reported their concerns to their local authority over teacher Will Knowlands lecture. School chiefs dismissed Mr Knowland after he refused to take down an online lecture tackling radical feminism and the concept of toxic masculinity from his personal YouTube ch...

School chiefs dismissed Mr Knowland after he refused to take down an online lecture tackling radical feminism and the concept of toxic masculinity from his YouTube channel.

Eton College told it could refer dismissed Master under Prevent duty School contacted Local Authority Designated Officer to report concerns about Will Knowlands controversial lecture Will Knowland was dismissed from Eton College earlier this year Eton College received legal advice that a dismissed Master could be referred under the Prevent duty for advocating male superiority and the glorification of violence, The Telegraph can reveal.  The £42,500-a-year school contacted the Royal Borough of...

47 shares A spokesperson for Eton College told MailOnline: We are sorry some Old Etonians have taken this position, but the school must act in the best interest of current pupils and staff and this includes complying with regulations which Mr Knowlands video breached.  Many other Old Etonians have sent the school strong messages of support, telling us that we have done the right thing. Earlier this month Mr Knowland lost his appeal over his dismissal after the governing body upheld the decisi...

It began, remembers Rachel Knowland, with a Viking raid. Her husband, the sacked Eton English master Will Knowland, had recommended the classic Norse saga The Long Ships to students at the schools Huxley Book Club. He thought its buccaneering young hero Orm Tostesson might fire their teenage imaginations and theyd learn some history, geography and anthropology along the way. But Knowland was rapped over the knuckles when a colleague complained, not about the book itself, but about the The New S...

Eton Head Masters row with beaks led to intervention of bishop under 600-year-old rule An Eton housemaster wrote to the Bishop of Lincoln, Eton’s “Visitor” under rules dating back to its foundation in 1440 18 December 2020 • 9:00pm  Bishop Christopher Lowson descended on the famous school in 2018 A dispute between Eton’s Head Master and the “beaks” led to one of the country’s most senior bishops intervening under a 600-year-old rule, The Telegraph has learned. A housemaster at ...

SIR – Your Leading Article (December 16) is absolutely right. Trust in people’s common sense. The vast majority will do what is right. The usual suspects will be irresponsible regardless. John Taylor Purley, Surrey SIR – They break the rules; you bend the rules; I have a very good reason for what I am doing. Kate Wylie Carrick   SIR – You report that two leading medical journals have criticised the Government’s stance on Christmas. Readers should understand that the Health Service ...