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Ms Ara, 56, a former artist in residence at the V&A Museum, said she was not anti-trans, but felt women’s rights were ‘under attack’.
The university said Ms Ara’s appearance was one of a series of School of Arts events, adding: ‘The talk will go ahead in March.’
It comes days after Education Secretary Gavin Williamson warned universities to uphold freedom of speech.
Critics had a similar event pulled in November 2019 at Oxford Brookes University (pictured) after the feminist artist was accused of bigotry for sharing two tweets criticising moves to let people self-identify as women
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Inside Britain’s last temperance bar – the first of a new brand of boozer
An alcohol ban in pubs is under consideration, and young people are shunning drink. Is Mr Fitzpatrick s the future of our watering holes?
20 February 2021 • 5:00pm
Ashleigh Morley-Doidge, owner of Mr Fitzpatrick’s Temperance Bar
Credit: Lorne Campbell/Guzelian
During its 122-year history, Mr Fitzpatrick’s bar in Rawtenstall has endured enough crises to turn many to drink – two world wars, the Spanish Flu pandemic, and now Covid, to name but a few. But with Britain’s hospitality trade tanking and many pubs closing their doors for good, spirits are still high at Britain’s last original temperance bar, which has stood on Bank Street in the Lancashire mill town since 1899.
Selfie-taking tourists risk giving wild gorillas COVID-19, other diseases
The majority of gorilla selfies that researchers found on Instagram violated social distancing rules meant to keep the endangered great apes safe.
ByRachel Nuwer
Email
COVID-19 isn’t merely a human disease animals can catch it too. Species infected so far include domestic cats, lions, tigers, mink, and dogs. In January, three gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park tested positive, the first such cases in any non-human primate.
The gorillas which were likely infected by an asymptomatic keeper recovered, in part with medical help. Winston, the troop’s 49-year-old leader, who has an underlying heart condition, developed pneumonia and was given antibiotics, heart medication, and monoclonal antibody therapy.