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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-platformed herself after lobbying by trans activists over her views on gender- said universities sayin...

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 and women in society, such as salaries. Her precise aims have been revealed after a Freedom of In...

Oxford University biggest funder of 'anti-trans' group OXFORD University has paid a £20,000 consultancy fee to a women's rights group accused of being 'anti-transgender', making the university the biggest single financial supporter of the group. The money was paid to Woman's 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 transgender rights and was recently branded as a 'trans-exclusionary hate group' by the Labour Campa...