Mike Wells asks why British museums are morally obliged to return the Benin bronzes, given that they were created by a brutal, slave-owning regime that engaged in ritual human sacrifice, including the crucifixion of women.
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Freddie Attenborough, the comms officer of the Free Speech Union, reflects on the absurdity of the Cambridge Footlights advertising for 'sensitivity readers'. Is satire finally dead?
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The pro-Israel crowd may have won a small battle in forcing Lowkey not to perform this month, but they are losing the war for hearts and minds across the West.
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He has sent so many cliques and groups into titters of anger, and the indignant have attempted to turn on him. The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale. Dissent and disagreement are lethal toxin to such affected notions as “diversity” and “inclusiveness”.
By Alastair Sloan | MEMO | August 25, 2017 Just over eighteen months ago, environmental campaigners in Britain received some surprising news. They had been working for three years to get the Tate Gallery in London to reveal how much money oil giant BP had given it between 1990 and 2011. The figure turned out […]
British researcher Madeleine Lancaster is growing human brains in her Cambridge University lab. A few hundred of them, in fact. That’s about 2 million neurons. [1]
No, this isn’t a Halloween gag. This sci-fi experiment is intended to help scientists understand disorders like autism and schizophrenia.
It’s not just Lancaster who is invested in growing human brains outside of the body. It’s a project being undertaken by scientists around the world.
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | September 17, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea… Time’s up, so-called Professor Wadhams. It is now exactly four years ago that you forecast the demise of Arctic sea ice this summer: One of the world’s leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues to spread awareness even though he's trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
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By Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle | May 16 2013
It is an event ‘of cosmic proportions’, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor.
