SaSie
So apparently there’s now an app to agree not to rape your partner. It’s called ‘Sasie’ and according to reports, ‘the app is meant to be a legally binding contract between two adults who are agreeing to have a sexual … Continue reading SaSie
Tag: university
Naz
Hah! Farewell then, to the appalling, despicable, terrorist-sympathising[i], holocaust-denying[ii] Naz Shah, from her role as parliamentary aide to John McDonnell, and let’s hope that she gets dumped from the parliamentary select committee on anti-Semitism too! Exposed in her opinions by … Continue reading Naz
La-la-la
It’s never easy to hear bad news, and that’s true whether it’s bad news in a literal sense – some new atrocity or catastrophe on the ten o’clock bulletin, or something more local: some sinister diagnosis, or some shocking trauma suffered by friend or … Continue reading La-la-la
Tatchell – Post script
After my earlier post about the no-platforming of gay and civil rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, I had the advantage of seeing him interviewed on Newsnight (from 32:00) opposite trans-activist Paris Lees, and this experience both settled some of my questions … Continue reading Tatchell – Post script
Tatchell
So the latest victim of no-platforming is none other than veteran civil and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, proving that no one is sufficiently right-on not to fall foul of the current wave of student Stalinism, should it so happen … Continue reading Tatchell
Reparations
Ntokozo Qwabe, the young Rhodes scholar crusading for his benefactor’s statue to be removed from its position above the portico of Oriel College, has justified his apparent biting of the deceased hand that feeds him by claiming that his scholarship … Continue reading Reparations
Cecil
Much has been written, and even more said, about the recent demand to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes from the portico of Oriel College in Oxford. Should a racist colonist, slaver and imperialist still be honoured in marble (or whatever material is used) now that his country of birth has moved forward with its values and realised that much of what he did must be regarded as questionable by today’s standards? Some have stepped forward and outlined ways in which Rhodes was far from the character it has been claimed he was, but let us set them aside for … Continue reading Cecil
The virtue of disagreement
Today’s topic I cannot avoid, really, as it is uppermost in my mind, on a matter which has troubled me since I first heard of it last June, and of which I later had first hand experience online. Most broadly expressed, it is the stifling of debate in the modern university. What causes it to be uppermost in my mind is my coming across a very short clip concerning merely the most recent manifestation of this fad, which is the question of whether the statue of Cecil Rhodes which stands over a doorway to Oriel College, Oxford should be removed … Continue reading The virtue of disagreement
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