The QAA and “decolonising” the curriculum: free speech risks
The QAA has controversially issued revised Benchmark Statements for university courses which incorporate a “decolonisation” agenda into subjects as unlikely as computer science.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Freedom of Speech lecture
Chimamanda has given the first of this year’s Reith Lectures where she discusses freedom of speech, cancel culture and social censorship.
Update on Cambridge intervention
We’ve had a busy month, with more work on the free speech failures at Cambridge.
Our first intervention: Cambridge
Ill-judged statements about a talk have involved what appear to be breaches of equalities and free speech legislation. We have written to remonstrate and urge remedies and greater care in future.
We’ve launched!
Alumni have seen and are joining at pace. Good start!
Allison Bailey’s victory
Barrister Allison Bailey wins her landmark case against her chambers for discrimination on account of her protected characteristic under the Equality Act. All sorts of opinions about currently controversial matters must logically also be protected.
AFFS goes live – sort-of ….
AFFS proudly presents its website – well, quite proudly….
“I don’t agree that, when you become students at colleges, you have to be coddled and protected from different points of view.”
Barack Obama
Become an AFFS Member
1. Join AFFS and strengthen our campaign 2. Set up a university or college alumni free-speech organisation. See how you can do it here 3. Associate your existing campaign with us: Contact us at info@affs.uk 4. Join an alumni association. See a list of campaigns here 5. Donate to AFFS to enable us to maintain […]
What we're doing
Our universities, once the great champions of free speech, academic freedom and diversity of viewpoint, are increasingly becoming their opponents. This is an evolving disaster for academics and students – and for our society as a whole. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, the only thing necessary for censorship to triumph is for good people to do […]
