3+ day, 34+ min ago   (457+ words) Ghent university shouldn’t have suspended Nathan Cofnas The Spectator Australia Ghent university shouldn’t have suspended Nathan Cofnas It is ironic that the ‘be kind’ brigade beating their breasts and wailing about the ‘lynching’ and ‘assassination’ of Jason Arday think the…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (317+ words) More recently, I was taken to task by a bureaucrat for not stating my preferred pronouns in my email signature block. When informed it was ‘university policy’, I capitulated. Thereafter, my preferred pronoun was ‘Dr’. I assumed this was acceptable,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (993+ words) The Spectator Australia The questions Cambridge still has to answer about Jason Arday If poor Jason Arday killed himself, it will be necessary to work out why. To do so, it will help to know why he resigned his professorship....

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (911+ words) The Spectator Australia Missive from Monocultural land Crisafulli gets a C minus Let’s just say that you either genuflect at the foot of DEI or you’re not welcome. Can you get more mono than that? Because remember what DEI is....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (448+ words) The Spectator Australia The tragedy of Jason Arday Simon Baron-Cohen, the distinguished Cambridge autism specialist, has been speaking movingly about his friend, Jason Arday, in a BBC radio interview. Baron-Cohen said the last contact he had with Arday was hours…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (701+ words) Jason Arday’s death is dreadful – and enraging The Spectator Australia Jason Arday’s death is dreadful – and enraging Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (863+ words) Daniel Defoe observed that plague victims ‘never perceiv’d that they were infected’ until they discovered the ‘tokens’ on their skin. By that point, ‘nothing could follow but certain Death’. Something similar might be said of Britain’s universities. In recent days,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (176+ words) The Jason Arday scandal might seem extraordinary to many. It is less surprising for those of us in academia who have witnessed how structures have been put in place to ensure that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) poster boys like…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (668+ words) The Spectator Australia Sociology is about much more than fools like Jason Arday One of the unfortunate consequences of the Jason Arday debacle is that it has thrown the entire discipline of sociology into disrepute. In the minds of many,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (968+ words) On July 29, Anthony Fauci sat before a US Senate committee and refused to answer. Senator Rand Paul had released more than a thousand pages of his pandemic journals days before. Paul is now moving for contempt. In Washington, at least,…...