International Academic Freedom Day: AFAF and SAFAF Online Gathering
Sean Parker* gives a personal snapshot of the AFAF and SAFAF online gathering on International Academic Freedom Day 20 May 2025 “There is no university in the country that will […]
A call for institutional neutrality
A letter to all UK Universities from the London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom, Alumni for Free Speech, Academics For Academic Freedom, Committee for Academic Freedom, Pharos Foundation, Student Academics […]
Meet the groups leading the free speech fight-back against Britain’s ‘institutionally captured’ universities
James Saunders wrote a long piece for GB News on the free speech fightback in universities. Here, with permission, we publish a short taster. In his article James also discuss […]
No Forbidden Zones
What the case of Frances Widdowson tells us about academic freedom in Canadian Universities A guest long read from Tyrel Cameron Eskelson* Academic freedom ended at Calgary’s Mount Royal University […]
Blasphemy versus Free Speech
Don Milligan* argues that ‘non-crime hate incidents’ function like blasphemy laws. He was speaking at the East Midlands Salon in Derby on 30 January. The suppression of ridicule or criticism […]
Heather McKee at Croydon Constitutionalists
Our roving reporter, Sean Parker, gives his take on a talk by SAFAF’s ‘flame-haired force of nature’. On the day that Keir Starmer’s Labour government announced people might get arrested […]
#JeSuisToujoursCharlie
We should all be as courageous as the writers and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, argues Dennis Hayes*. ’Indestructible’ is the headline on a special edition of Charlie Hebdo published to […]
Astronauts for Space Exploration
Tim Crowley gave this entertaining and insightful talk at the AFAF Annual Conference 2024 ‘Academics for Academic Freedom’: I want to begin by just reflecting on this phrase. What does […]
AFAF and SAFAF – The rise of the students
At the AFAF Conference student voices were loud. Many of their stories were subject to Chatham House Rules but here is a snapshot of their contributions. The big message to […]
The HEFOSA: where are we now?
Abhishek Saha gave the opening talk at the AFAF Annual Conference held at Conway Hall, London, on 23 November 2024. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history […]
