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Pupils at Eton College. (Graeme Robertson/Getty) Eton College has upheld its headmaster’s decision to fire a teacher who wrote a sexist and anti-trans lecture, claiming aggression and toxic masculinity are a “biological reality” for men. In November, Eton College English teacher Will Knowland was fired for “persistently” refusing to remove a YouTube video of an anti-trans, sexist lecture he had written titled “The Patriarchy Paradox”. The lecture was recorded for a “perspectives...

The Eton teacher who lost an appeal against his sacking in a free speech row today admitted he was disappointed by the decision. Will Knowland spoke out just hours after an appeal panel chaired by Prince William and Prince Harrys former housemaster at the school ruled that his dismissal was justified. As he walked his bull mastiff on the nearly deserted streets of Eton, he told MailOnline: I am disappointed, but not surprised. Mr Knowland went on to claim that he believed it was inevitable that...

A sacked Eton College tutor at the centre of a free speech row has today lost his appeal. The governing body of the £42,500-a-year Berkshire college has upheld the decision of school chiefs to sack Will Knowland. The English teacher was dismissed over an online lecture tackling radical feminism and the concept of toxic masculinity. His dismissal, for reportedly refusing to take down his lecture from his personal YouTube channel, sparked outrage among students, who immediately launched a petiti...

13 Dec 2020 England’s elite, all-girls Roedean School is “decolonising” its history curriculum to take on the “white Western narrative” to appease the Black Lives Matter movement. The clifftop school, founded in the 1800s as Wimbledon House, which charges pupils’ parents up to £40,000, will insert lessons on “black Tudors, Queen Victoria’s black goddaughter and how Africans helped to resist the slave trade” into its syllabus, according to The Times, as well as teaching its ...

Who can blame these emotionally stunted old boys from defending an indefensible teacher? Eton boys: ‘Unbelievably assured and yet so ordinary.’ Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo Eton boys: ‘Unbelievably assured and yet so ordinary.’ Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo Sun 13 Dec 2020 03.00 EST ‘An elephant sea cow will cry out in protest if a low-ranking male tries to mate with her, summoning all the males within earshot to come and fight over her.” How like women!...

EXCLUSIVE: Eton College headmaster Simon Henderson wrote a letter to parents saying a number of symptomatic boys and staff tested positive for the virus.