Flora Carr explores what it means to be a person of faith on a university campus.
God at uni: Seeking freedom from stereotype
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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
University: A safe place for safe ideas
There is a strong attitude across university campuses that censorship is a good tool for the benefit of a multicultural and inclusive society, that respects the values of all its members, freeing them from being exposed to anything they may find “harmful”, Christopher Beckett writes
Bad history and bad politics
Padraig Reidy on why we must combat taboos about discussing events of the past
Filtering in the UK: The hinterland of legality, where secrecy trumps court rulings
A slip during an interview revealed the sneaking suspicion of free thinkers. The UK government was no longer restricting itself to censoring web content which was illegal. It was going to start censoring content which it simply didn’t like, Ian Dunt writes
Twitter as a game has real-life consequences
The description of Twitter as a game has one problem: Twitter can have real-life consequences, Padraig Reidy writes
Irresistible: Espionage, dissent and NGOs
Edward Snowden’s revelations on the voracious appetite of spying on all and sundry by the National Security Agency and allied agencies should not give pause for too much comment, other than to affirm a general premise: Activists and non-government groups are to be feared.
Is the university gender gap a barrier to free expression?
A lack of visibility of female academics at the University of Bristol – especially in the more scientific faculties – is in stark contrast to the number of undergraduates in the same subjects, Margot Tudor writes
Media must end its love affair with religious censors
A media that paints puritans and fanatics as mainstream forfeits its right to condemn them, writes Alex Gabriel
Criminalising kink: Cameron’s porn crusade
The UK government is sneaking through a vast extension to pornographic prohibition. It’s so vaguely worded that it could cover 50 Shades of Grey (if filmed), Game of Thrones or Florentine statues. Jonathan Lindsell reports
Cambridge University Press is afraid of the Russians
A recent study of Vladimir Putin’s gangster tendencies has been suppressed: not by the Kremlin, but by a UK academic publisher living in fear of England’s libel laws, writes Padraig Reidy