As ever, at public universities in particular, the first amendment applies.

Ep.98 of the Music Teachers Association podcast, out now!

- @CarolineNokes MP on the Misogyny in Music report;

- Oli Rose with the Lang Lang Foundation Keys of Inspiration scheme;

- Dr James Olsen from SMA on music analysis, notation & musical literacy.

#CanDoMusic tinyurl.com/lbr4b6zd

My next guest on the Yasmine Mohammed Podcast is Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن
Elica is a British-born attorney, artist, activist, and speaker from Iranian roots. Her message is for bridge building, truth telling, and humanity. Click here to join us: wix.to/iAAhves

Recording of session 1 of 'Free Speech and Academic Freedom across the Disciplines', April 24 below!
The speakers for session 1 were Alan Sokal Helen Pluckrose Prof. Eric Heinze @QMUL 🇺🇦 + (🇮🇱 + 🇵🇸) Bryn Harris 3418 Chair: Alastair Donald.
echo360.org.uk/media/005ee33d…
The Free Speech Union Academics For Academic Freedom Living Freedom

'The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The level of repression is off the charts, but we cheered on free speech repression ourselves for a decade. I am not sure even this level of repression would have been decried if it was against, e.g. truckers or 'TERFs'.

Can we all agree in general this needs to stop?!

I know a lot of you are exhausted and despondent about the state of the world. Please read this article and feel some hope in your heart.

“In Israel, activists from Muslim countries denounce common threat of radical Islam”

Thank you to Sharaka - شراكة 💙

timesofisrael.com/in-israel-acti…

.Alexandra Wilson has a radical suggestion: if you are in a concert hall then put your phone away and concentrate
thecritic.co.uk/there-is-nothi…

Those of us on the left who defended free speech all these years against “freeze peach” leftist & liberal censors warned exactly this would happen once a society-wide free-speech ethos was eroded.

Mine, from 2015 after the Charlie Hebdo massacre:
ricochet.media/international/…

The Welsh Government has finalised official Year Zero-style 'decolonisation' guidelines which instruct public bodies, including Wales’s National Museum in Cardiff, on how to ensure statues, plaques and paintings project the “right historic narrative”.
freespeechunion.org/welsh-governme…

I love CBSO but the new relaxation of rules is an awful idea. Allowing the use of phones (even on silent) in a concert will distract audiences and performers, lessening the joy of what should be an immersive few hours. Thoughts: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

I made a hard-sell feminist case for why certain downsides of the ‘feminisation’ of certain elite sectors is a difficult discussion worth having.

Please read in full before shouting at me.

The awkward truth about sex and free speech thecritic.co.uk/the-awkward-tr…

Painted composition design to medicine, 1888 botfrens.com/collections/10…

Horse-chestnut-trees in Jas de Bouffan, 1887 botfrens.com/collections/43…

Targets are usually anyone who is “different” from the organizational norm. Usually victims are competent, educated, resilient, outspoken, challenge the status quo, are more empathic or attractive and tend to be women
psychcentral.com/health/mobbing…

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2… “In a new age of great power competition and civilisational decline, it is increasingly important that we move beyond the indulgence of London-centric ‘groundhog day’ narratives of Western self-loathing, to rediscover a sense of purpose and belonging.'

📺Legatum Institute senior advisor, Doug Stokes, has criticised the ‘fearful’ BBC over their advisory warnings as they re-broadcast art historian Lord Clark’s 1969 television series Civilisation.

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

When arts and humanities departments became centres of political activism rather than critical scholarly enquiry, then it may be no loss if they decline.

It may seem obvious to some in academia why their hermeneutical interpretations of literature or film, accounts of ‘soundscapes’, ideas on radical trans decolonised theatrical space, or whatever, are vital. But in many cases the number who would notice their absence is minuscule.