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University of Sussex to fight record fine for free speech failures
The University of Sussex is fighting back after being fined £585,000 for failing to protect Professor Kathleen Stock’s academic freedom. The OfS said its trans equality policy created a “chilling effect” on speech. Now Sussex is taking legal action to overturn the ruling.
Challenge problem of ‘whiteness’, London Museum tells staff
The London Museum has urged staff to “challenge embedded whiteness” as part of a culture-change initiative rooted in critical race theory. It reflects a broader trend: British institutions are increasingly reorienting around contested ideological frameworks that all too often suppress dissent.
Police arrest parents who complained in school WhatsApp group
A couple were detained in front of their nine year-old daughter and kept in a cell for eight hours over “disparaging” messages in a school WhatsApp and follow-up emails raising concerns with school leadership.
Kathleen Stock renounces academic title over ‘dim-witted’ trans policies
Kathleen Stock has criticised “dim-witted, claustrophobic” transgender policies still in place at universities across Britain as she renounced her academic title in “disgust” at her former profession.
Angela Rayner’s banter crackdown is threat to free speech, warns EHRC
Labour’s crackdown on banter is a threat to free speech that will allow people to “sue for hurt feelings”, ministers have been warned.
Farage and NatWest agree to settle debanking dispute
The Reform UK leader has agreed to end his dispute with the high street banking giant nearly two years after the closure of his Coutts accounts led to the ousting of its former CEO.
