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🇩🇪🇵🇪 Lawyer. Linguist. Mujer insumisa. Mother. Daughter. Granddaughter. Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden.

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@AlmutGadow

Almut Gadow

1 year

My employment tribunal case against @OpenUniversity argues that I was unlawfully dismissed for rejecting gender ideology and for believing in academic freedom. If you can, please consider donating or sharing the crowdfunding appeal.

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Almut Gadow - standing against indoctrination and for academic freedom

We are a non-partisan, mass membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members and campaigns for free speech more widely.

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Almut Gadow

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No lawsuit against @jk_rowling or @elonmusk has been announced. He says he’s made a complaint to the prosecutor’s office. That’s the civil law country’s equivalent of saying he’s reported the matter to the police. Not that he’s filed a lawsuit. @guardian @nadiakhomami .

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JK Rowling and Elon Musk named in Imane Khelif cyberbullying lawsuit

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Universities are now losing court cases brought by gender critical academics. Berlin Administrative Court has held that Humboldt University acted unlawfully in distancing itself from a gender critical academic to placate trans activists.

Der Fall Marie-Luise Vollbrecht: Biologin gewinnt vor Gericht gegen Humboldt Universität | NIUS.de

Der Fall Marie-Luise Vollbrecht: Biologin gewinnt vor Gericht gegen Humboldt Universität

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Dear @KayBurley . The "Equalities Act 2010" about which you tweet, and speak in the clip, does not exist. There is an Equality Act 2010. The words you show on screen, creating the false impression that you are quoting from the Equality Act, are not in fact from the Equality Act.

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Kay Burley

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PM says a man is a man, a woman is a woman. The Equalities Act 2010 says you must not be discriminated against because of gender reassignment. So isn't Sunak breaking the law, Transport Sec @Mark_J_Harper ? #KayBurley FC

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@TimJBlackman Does your definition of "women and girls" include males here? Does spending money to "protect women and girls online" include protecting males from encountering gender critical thought online? Will colleagues who ask such questions be summarily dismissed for it? @olga_jurasz

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7 months

The government should introduce an Equality Act Swear Box. Anyone who misrepresents what's in the Act has to put 10p in the box. Any EDI adviser who misrepresents what's in the Act has to put £10 in the box. That will soon raise enough money to pay off the national debt.

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Legal Feminist

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The "Equalities Act" Willoughby mentions does not exist. The effect of a GRC is quite limited, but neither it nor the EqA confers on the holder a general right to have others pretend that he is a woman, or that she is a man. Fuller explanation here:

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8 months

Today was payday at the Open University, I believe. The harassers and discriminators identified in the judgment will have collected another pay cheque, as will @TimJBlackman . Those hounded out by them did not. VC announces ... another review. #LongGrass

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A statement from Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University regarding the...

The judgment made for difficult reading for all of us. We apologise unreservedly to Professor Phoenix for the hurt and distress this has caused.

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When the DfE told us the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act had been stopped "due to concerns from vulnerable groups", was the Chinese Communist Party one of the 'vulnerable groups' it had in mind? Along with vunlerable Vice Chancellors, Stonewall and Big Business?

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If surveyed, most students in North Korea would probably report no issues with restrictions on free speech. Most of them will rarely or never have witnessed a student or lecturer saying the wrong thing and being punished for it. Does it follow that there isn’t a big problem?

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Paul Taylor

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@akuareindorf @bphillipsonMP For the record a large majority of students say in the National Student Survey that they are free to express their opinions and beliefs. There really isn’t a big problem.

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Universities should update their messaging on "allyship" to make clear that vicious, coordinated pile-ons on a colleague are neither encouraged nor rewarded through appraisal and promotion processes - not even if done screaming "transphobe". I am not sure Jo's harassers knew that

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John Armstrong

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8 months

The academic community has developed a blindspot for harassment. Universities should update their harassment policies to state that no-platforming and unsubstantiated accusations of transphobia are harassment. This has always been obvious to the victims.

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11 months

I’m glad @DrJoGrady objects to government preparing ‘secret dossiers’ on academics whose politics she shares. Did she also find UCU Commons plans to collate and share information on gender critical colleagues ‘alarming’ and ‘deeply sinister’? If not, why?

@DrJoGrady

Jo Grady

11 months

BREAKING: Government prepared secret dossiers on academics social media posts. Not only is this alarming, it is deeply sinister. It is time for us to come together to ensure we stave off this government, who threaten everything we value and hold dear.

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Asking patrons to leave a pub because they’re “a TERF group” sounds like belief discrimination in the provision of services, which would be illegal.

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11 months

UPDATE: The Duty Manager of the Glasgow Weatherspoon has just come in to complain that we are "a TERF group" and we are being kicked out. We are a party of 14 people just having fun and having a rather peaceful drink after a feminist conference.

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5 months

The OU has amended its announcement removing any reference to Smita Jamdar.

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Professor Dame Nicola Dandridge to lead post-employment tribunal review - OU News

Professor Dame Nicola Dandridge has been appointed to lead an independent post-employment tribunal review at The Open University.

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Almut Gadow

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@QcWynter @Nettleshippy Listed for 24/02/25-21/03/25. Not nearly funded. OU asked for a 4-week hearing in order to call "up to 20" witnesses. Having deeper pockets has always been the OU's strong point in these cases, to which I feel its litigation strategy might be playing.

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Almut Gadow - standing against indoctrination and for academic freedom

We are a non-partisan, mass membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members and campaigns for free speech more widely.

www.crowdjustice.com

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Almut Gadow

8 months

To anyone at the @OpenUniversity impressed by @TimJBlackman 's apology I say this: Remember your last VC? Remember how many beautifully worded apologies he issued, professing to have listened and learnt the lesson - only to continue full steam ahead as before? Most of us 1/2

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Almut Gadow

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Equalities Minister makes very reasonable points about gender self-identification. What she says is no different in content or style from statements which the @OpenUniversity sacked me for making.

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Tory vow to end abuse of gender laws by predators

Kemi Badenoch, the women and equalities minister, says she wants to protect the ‘privacy and dignity’ of women and girls

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Almut Gadow

10 months

Looks like @DrJoGrady ’s abortive campaign for academic freedom is now being rebranded and relaunched as a campaign “to uncover government interference, monitoring and meddling in our sectors”. The words ‘academic freedom’ seem to have been quietly dropped from it.

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Almut Gadow

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@KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 JKR has a proud record of speaking out for the many women who (like me) got sacked for attempting to engage in reasonable debate on this topic. I’m glad she does. Because people like you find her harder to ignore, when you falsely claim we have always been able to discuss this.

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8 months

Dear @TimJBlackman As of today, are law tutors in @OU_Law allowed to say that “gender identity and expression” incl. “non-binary identification” are not protected under the Equality Act 2010? Or is saying so still deemed unlawful harassment beyond the scope of lawful free speech?

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Almut Gadow

8 months

Yes. To the best of my knowledge they are still misstating the Equality Act. And treating accurate explanations of equality law by a law tutor as "not within the scope of freedom of speech within the law because they amount to unlawful harassment". @CarolSherriff

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This is a shocking distortion of what the tribunal in Phoenix v OU found. The judgment could not have been clearer in dismissing @OpenUniversity officers’ attempts to justify the harassment & discrimination against @JoPhoenix1 with academic freedom. Not only were harassers and

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Pilgrim Tucker 💚

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“The OU’s principles on Academic Freedom recognised that freedom of speech may cause offence, the Tribunal had shown that this can cross the boundary into harassment and discrimination” OU summary of the Phoenix judgement being disseminated internally in the university

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Today’s email advertising UCU workshops offers 3 courses with ‘LGBT+’ in the name, plus ‘Allyship’ type sessions packed with genderism. Nothing about university’s massive harassment problem documented in Phoenix v OU, nor the need for T+ campaigners not to harass/discriminate.

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Prof Jo Phoenix

8 months

I would consider rejoining UCU if there is a candidate that can address the bloody elephant in the room - that UCU do not protect GC academics and have even played a hand in the open harassment of them. Even just an acknowledgement of 'the Phoenix judgement' and what it means re

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❤️ THANK YOU to Academics for Academic Freedom and Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers for coming out in my support. The backing of colleagues with a track record of integrity and sound judgement means a lot to me @AFAF_freespeech @StuartR92034479 . @OU_Law @OU_FBL

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Another higher education provider settles the liabilities arising from discriminating against gender critical members. And apologises. Meanwhile the @OpenUniversity continues to funnel students' fees and taxpayers' money into a futile attempt to defend the indefensible.

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James Esses

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🚨Case Update: Settlement Reached🚨 Having been expelled from my Masters’ degree in Psychotherapy over 3 years ago, after speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding, I am extremely pleased to announce that I have agreed a settlement with the Metanoia

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On this day in 1992, Open University lecturer Lizzie Howe was killed by a student, who got into her bedroom, sexually assaulted her, slit her throat, slashed her torso, then left wearing her blood stained clothes.

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'About 10 minutes ago, life was normal': Grieving dad on how he coped after his wife's brutal murder

Jeremy and Lizzie Howe were like any young couple, devoted to their children and looking forward to a happy future together

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Almut Gadow

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@SVPhillimore Loaded questions like "Do you regret the hurt you caused with your offensive posts?", which HR investigators like to ask, leave the employee damned whatever they answer. Yes = admission of guilt. No = callous employee admits not caring what impact her actions have on others.

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Almut Gadow

1 year

The end of this institutionalised dogma will be rapid once started. Once top management start seeing snake oil as a liability, snake oil peddling stops being a career move. At that point, all the opportunists stop being snake oil allies, support and revenue plummet. Game over.

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Maya Forstater

1 year

3 months ago today the final judgment in my case against CGD was handed down. I was awarded aggravated damages because of Masood Ahmed's "high handed & oppressive conduct" & loss of earnings & injury to feelings for unlawful discrimination against me. He is leaving in 3 months.

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The OU has spent hundreds of thousands on defending the indefensible, and will spend hundreds of thousands more. Meanwhile students are denied essentials without which they cannot study (e.g. printed reading materials costing a 2-figure sum per student per year) on cost grounds.

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Prof Jo Phoenix

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Approximately 5 years for both the of us. More than 3 years since OUGCRN was established. OU must have spent somewhere between £500k - £1m (or their insurers did). Couldn't put it better myself @HJoyceGender . I hope Philipson reconsiders.

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1 year

Times Higher Education wrote about my case and how it will clarify UK law on academic free expression. Yet again, the OU's response is to suggest I am lying ("spurious allegations”) while unable to identify a single inaccuracy in anything I have said.

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Almut Gadow: ‘Would free speech act have helped me? I’m not sure’

Former law lecturer suing Open University after claiming she was fired for questioning gender-based changes to curriculum

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Almut Gadow

1 year

I see the @OpenUniversity has upped its aggressive language about me another notch. But it still can't say which part of my account it denies. "strongly dispute" "vigorously defend" but ... "do not intend to comment" on the substance.

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Professor Alice Sullivan

1 year

More coverage of @AlmutGadow 's extremely important case.

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Almut Gadow

6 months

Most countries on the planet have produced a version of this painting. Clouds in the sky at the top. Mountains or hills in the background. Field in the foreground, dotted with animals/persons/a path. Seeing/enjoying/depicting landscapes is a pretty universal human experience.

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Professor Karol Sikora

@ProfKarolSikora

6 months

Very disappointed to see this from my former university. To be completely honest, I am utterly sick and tired of this nonsense. We all know it's ludicrous, so how on earth does it keep happening?! 'Rolling English hills' aren't racist, they're hills.

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@OpenUniversity @TimJBlackman @CarolSherriff Are you quite sure you want to keep spending students' fees and taxpayers' money on defending the indefensible? Management at Cambridgeshire County Council have just decided not to. To them, this would have been the first such loss.

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Maya Forstater

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Cambridgeshire County Council admits liability for harassment and discrimination of social worker Lizzy Pitt who was disciplined after making her gender critical views public in a workplace LGBTQIA group

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fell for it the first few times - but then learnt. To save the OU from the damage caused by Horrock's approach, he had to go. For him to resign, Council had to be convinced that he was a liability. 2/2

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@GuyLambertUK @JuliaHB1 @OpenUniversity Totally agree that my political views do not belong in the classroom - and neither do institutionally adopted ideologies. One of the statements for which I was sacked was me saying that law tutorials are not the place to promote one's religious or philosophical beliefs.

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Almut Gadow

11 months

It would be lovely if EDI teams saw the public sector equality duty as part of their role and purpose. In practice, EDI is not, and does not include 'equality' in the sense of the Equality Act. University EDI departments often openly campaign against what equality law requires.

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John Armstrong

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11 months

EDI teams have a duty to "foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not". This means they need to be diplomats. If you want to work in EDI this means you may sometimes need to bite your tongue.

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Being gender critical, saying I do not believe in gender identity, is not like joining a political party that has a programme on every policy issue under the sun. I have in no way associated myself with the political positions other GCs may adopt on other political issues.

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Audrey Ludwig

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Whilst have some sympathy with the wider intention, I disagree with the assumption in this tweet that not signing implies support for far right. We should move to a position where signing such letters indicates a desire to make known your agreement but not signing is neutral

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@SVPhillimore I don't know Rachel Meade's situation in early 2021. What I do know is that even post-Forstater many union reps would have advised an employee in her position to tell the investigation meeting how sorry they were for 'bad' posts made without realising the offence they'd cause.

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Almut Gadow

1 year

If you decolonise the word to make it inclusive, “discrimination” really just means treating someone the EDI operatives like in a way they don’t like. That’s what it means in a safe space, anyway. ‘Harassment’ means the same, if you’re an ally. And so does ‘victimisation’.

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Maya Forstater

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This witness is struggling with talk of discrimination (after it has been defined to her)... This is the Dean of EDI 🤯 Universities are spending £££s on EDI training but do not even understand what discrimination is (or else cant get head around applying it to "wrong" people)

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@TwisterFilm @bigdaddybunce The whole piece didn’t once mention that this story is about a male boxing against a female. It used euphemisms like “controversy over Khelif’s testosterone levels”, “gender eligibility grounds” “her status” and “gender questions”. Such is the accuracy of @BBCNews reporting.

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Almut Gadow

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This is not just an attack on one woman's right to speak or others' right to hear her. It suggests an attack on the proper functioning of justice in Canada. The DoJ exists to make justice work, which necessarily includes having and using the evidence required to see how the

@SpeechUnion

The Free Speech Union

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An eminent British academic who has warned about the multiple problems with conflating gender identity and biological sex in social research has been no-platformed by the Canadian government because "you are not allowed to talk about sex in Canada".

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👇An excellent account of what everyone who works around the criminal justice system has always known about males identifying as women one encounters in the criminal justice system.👌 I cannot trust nor respect anyone with that background who denies this reality.👇

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Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ✡️⚢ 👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏽

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(Fair warning: this is a long one, even for me.) For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m a law enforcement officer with experience investigating both homicides and sex crimes. When I was a rookie in 2007, there was a clear understanding that crossdressing men in women’s spaces were

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@SVPhillimore This was effectively what I was advised to do (over a year post-Forstater). The advice was given with the very best of intentions. Remember, unions weren't exactly training reps on the implications of Forstater. I went against this advice. But I'm a lawyer, and I'm stubborn.

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“The person who cancelled the debate is understood to be Dr Shahid Mahmoud, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Durham University.” Why on earth does an Inner Party official EDI operative get to decide what events can go ahead? ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters ‘lock’ university students inside debate chamber

Students were preparing room for debate on Israel-Palestine conflict when protesters formed human chain around building

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Almut Gadow

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@JoPhoenix1 I suspect this was meant literally, not metaphorically? I believe we're back to the claim that the Nazis persecuted trans people, literally making them victims of the Holocaust. That old chestnut seems to have been circulating with a vengeance again over the past few days.

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Almut Gadow

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Every message of support I've had from former colleagues has also expressed either fear that @OU_FBL might find out the colleague has been in touch, or a sincere hope they don't find out. So much for those with differing views being safe and free to express them @TimJBlackman !

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Jon Pike

8 months

I'm genuinely and sincerely grateful to academics and others who have got in touch and written kind private notes to me in the last week, following the @JoPhoenix1 judgment. It means a great deal. (Tiny suggestion that you could perhaps work on your timing a little)

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A core principle of academic freedom says that teaching content should not be interfered with by managers from outside the subject area aligning teaching with political and economic agendas. UK universities have consciously abandoned that principle in

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UCL lecturer warns academic freedom at risk as module removed after student complaints

UCL associate professor Michelle Shipworth says large groups of foreign students can contain significant minorities seeking to curtail academic freedoms in the interest of protecting their home...

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Almut Gadow

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Look forward to speaking at this fringe event at the LibDem Party Conference, to talk about the state of free speech on UK campuses and my ongoing case against the @OpenUniversity .

@LibVoice4Women

Liberal Voice for Women

@LibVoice4Women

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Liberal Voice for Women fringe event for LD Autumn Conference, Brighton. "Can we talk?" on free speech and academic freedom. Speakers @HJoyceGender @AlmutGadow @DrLauraFavaro and Chaired by @SarahLudford Sat 14th 8.15pm. For 🎟️ (live & zoom) click here 👇

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discriminators not engaging in anything that could be described as academic speech protected by academic freedom. The tribunal also found that OU staff relying on that excuse did not genuinely believe the unlawful acts to be a legitimate exercise of academic freedom.

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Almut Gadow

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Yes @andrewdoyle_com it’s an extremely common misconception. That’s why so many organisations cite ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ while breaking equality law. Saying “Equalities Act” seems to be as good a predictor as any that the speaker is about to get it wrong, I find.

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Andrew Doyle

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1 year

This debate is revealing. @schneiderhome is seemingly unaware that gender-critical beliefs are protected by law under the Equality Act. Is this a widespread misconception? It would explain much of the confusion around this issue… @MichelleDewbs @GBNEWS

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Yes. To the best of my knowledge they are still misstating the Equality Act. And treating accurate explanations of equality law by a law tutor as "not within the scope of freedom of speech within the law because they amount to unlawful harassment". @CarolSherriff

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Cerys

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@MForstater @TimJBlackman @OpenUniversity What? Less than a week later? @TimJBlackman ? Still going after @AlmutGadow and @PilgrimTucker in court, though, ey? Still mis-stating the Equality Act 2010 in your module books and assessments, though, ey? Module books still full of political activism, though, ey?

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@GreaterFireweed That seems like a reasonable assumption to make. I don't know the answer to your question. But having seen OU management at work for years, I find they don't often put right a wrong decision, yet may well make information about it harder to find.

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Almut Gadow

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@JillCollier16 @Nettleshippy @JoPhoenix1 @bo_wom @OpenUniversity Which is more than can be said about the money the @OpenUniversity threw at this case. The taxpayers and students whose money the OU spent and continues to spend on vexatiously defending its wrongdoing have not freely chosen to fund the OU’s litigation. @TimJBlackman

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Almut Gadow

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Thank you, Emma! You're the second OU student in one afternoon saying they are horrified by the OU's actions in my case. Meanwhile @TimJBlackman 's university continues to funnel your fees into what you and other students abhor. Your pledge is much appreciated. ☺️

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Almut Gadow

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Many thanks for your donation, Beverley 🙏 ⁦ @OpenUniversity ⁩ management may be using the fees of all students to fund their ongoing campaign against colleagues who don’t share their quasi religion. The support of all students they do not have.

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Gosh! The fact that someone working in a university's EDI department can't risk giving their name when supporting an equality case, a case brought under the Equality Act 2010, says it all, doesn't it! Thanks for your donation as well as for risking reprisal in making it!!

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Almut Gadow

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Bring your whole self to work. Except the part of the self that disagrees with gender identity belief, or with any other aspect of identity politics/ critical social justice. Under no circumstances must there ever be any glimpse of that part of your self. Or you will be sacked.

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Sarah Phillimore

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I know I keep banging on about this, but of all the stupid and dishonest mantras flung about by the gender identity movement, this 'bring your whole self to work' must surely be THE MOST stupid and dishonest of them all. My sexuality, the nature and frequency of my sexual

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@SVPhillimore I was 10 when it fell. If you had told anybody at the beginning of that year, 1989, that so much as a crack in that wall would appear soon people would have thought you’re mad. All-powerful, ideologically hollow regimes can overestimate how strong and lasting they really are.

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Well said @AFFSUK . During Stalin's famine, the Lysenkoist spirit sent crop scientists to the gulag for trying to breed crops that could thrive in Russia's more climatically inclement regions. Lysenko 'liberated the science curriculum' from bourgeois mendelianism.

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Alumni for Free Speech

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The point of University research is to find out the truth. If findings don't fit the politics & get suppressed, it's Soviet Lysenkoism. "The deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically desirable" @SpeechUnion @MayorofLondon

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@legalfeminist @JoPhoenix1 Never known a judge to ask, in any court or tribunal. Never known counsel to mention pronouns when introducing themselves, their learned friends or lay clients.

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@anerolb @Ch_Woodward @mamaresiliente "elle" no existe. Así lo dice la Real Academia Española.

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Iain Richard Scott and David Mark have a point. Well done to the ⁦ @SpeechUnion ⁩ for supporting me indeed. My case is indeed another example of why the FSU is so needed. Where would I be without the FSU. Where would we be without the FSU.

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@lennysperson I don't know. My guess would be ...no. Guessing she's probably been appointed to keep TRAs within the university happy. I suspect OU got more pushback on that announcement than they expected, so from now on arrangements will be as agreed with TRAs but kept more opaque in public.

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DEI does undermine recruits from disadvantaged backgrounds. Not because it promotes people from any group beyond innate ability, but because it promotes them on their victimhood narratives, not their merit. It tells them to perfect their victimhood, not their work, to get ahead.

@DontDivideUsNow

Don't Divide Us

@DontDivideUsNow

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Agree?👇 More often than not, DEI undermines ethnic-minority recruits. Those hired on the basis of their ethnicity or sex, rather than on merit, will likely struggle to work alongside those who have been selected on merit alone. This leads to a divided and resentful workplace.

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I increasingly believe @ucu getting sued by a gender critical member for discrimination / harassment at one of these branches is a question of when, not if.

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Aletheia

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'While community members are entitled to hold such beliefs, that does not mean they should...[disseminate] these beliefs to disparage trans people.' There we have it. Expression of GC beliefs is, for some, automatically disparagement/discrimination. How do we move from this?

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Thanks for your pledge, ‘former academic’. I’d go further than you and say EDI departments should not dictate curriculum in any subject area. In a free university, no-one outside the relevant scholarly community gets to tell faculty what teaching should cover. Just why ... 1/3

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@QcWynter @rohbo1 @Nettleshippy ‘Liberating’ the curriculum includes ‘queering’ it. I challenge you to name any significant queer theorist who says sexual pleasure should only be experienced between two consenting adults. Just one. Any recognised queer scholar who clearly condemns paedophilia? Just one?

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A quick reminder: the courts have confirmed that labelling someone 'transphobic' because of gender critical views is unlawful harassment. Describing (defaming) someone as an 'extremist anti-trans campaigner' when they are not is a level up from that.

@Christina_CYC

Christina Nowell 🔶🔆

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Their website also includes their list of speakers, which are: • Helen Joyce ( @HJoyceGender ), noted extremist anti-trans campaigner, probably the only person who is notable on the list of speakers • Laura Favaro ( @DrLauraFavaro ), a Spanish anti-trans campaigner in Bournemouth

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@HJoyceGender Not toilets. This is a shower, a room where users would normally undress from head to toe to use facilities as intended. If a male wants to get their penis out in a space designed for women to undress completely, the male’s feelings are the only valid consideration, apparently.

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The callousness with which @OpenUniversity management continues to expose women and girls to very real risks of being harmed by known offenders within the university (like Lizzie Howe’s killer) has not received the attention it deserves.

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1 year

I think (hope!) you're right @FemaleVehement . As a lawyer, I believe case law will be crucial to turning this tide, at least here in the UK. Forstater v CGD was gamechanging in establishing legal protection for gender critical belief. We still need a case on academic freedom.

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#SickOfThisShit

@FemaleVehement

1 year

Please donate if you can. These cases are making a difference, we are turning the tide #TerfIsland #EveryPennyHelps

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What this SNP MSP is describing sounds like a police state: Whether a given behaviour (misgendering) is a crime is "up to Police Scotland" and an "operational decision". In democracies, police don't make law. In democracies, police don't decide what's a crime and what isn't.

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Cath Leng

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So this was the SNP’s Siobhian Brown trying to defend the HCA to Justin’s extremely rational, highly skillful and fatally polite questions at 0820 this morning These are questions we all want answering, these are the right questions

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Universities have long had academics with immense expertise in their faculties. But now they also have EDI departments who, like a Leninist vanguard party, are on the right side of history, therefore know everything better than the experts, and must rule over the experts.

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Lawrence Patihis, PhD

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Knowledge is distributed. Consider that if you are mid/upper management in a business or a university in the UK (that has a class legacy). Especially in a university: we have doctorates and many years of continued learning via teaching/research/thought near the cutting edge.

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@ThePesetor Ahora es mala educación percibir la realidad con los ojos a la hora de ver.

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@FloatingSignifi Origianl statement said review "will start in early May, is expected to take four months and will be supported by independent legal advice from Ms Smita Jamdar, Partner and Head of Education at Shakespeare Martineau." Now the sentence ends before the "and".

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@runthinkwrite @JoPhoenix1 @OpenUniversity A few phrases for your buzzword bingo sheet: -await the outcome of the review -can't discuss ongoing grievance/disciplinary/tribunal cases -have learnt lessons -set up a [insert talking shop's name] -wellbeing of colleagues -we were just too keen to respect academic freedom

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Being placed alongside Maya Forstater and Kathleen Stock in this article totally made my day 💁‍♀️

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Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now? | Ben Sixsmith | The Critic Magazine

Hot emotions that followed the Hamas attack on Israel have had some unfortunate censorious consequences. Michael Eisen, editor of the journal eLife, has been fired for praising an Onion article with…

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7 months

When the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan, they were creating art in reverse. And so was the Nazi’s bonfire of ‘degenerate art’. Not sure the Taliban/ Nazis knew that was what they were doing. Philistines like me might not have got it. But experts have now confirmed it.

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Philip Proudfoot 🇱🇧🇵🇸

@PhilipProudfoot

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The protest at Cambridge was not art destruction but art creation. Whenever there is an act of iconoclastic protest, people seem to think attacking artwork is somehow outside of protest dynamics, when in fact it has a long history. Throughout time, protestors have defaced art

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@SarahSurviving @jk_rowling Neeves was on Radio 4's World at One today, talking about that very allegation. Denied stealing the sister's knickers, confirmed being caught by mum trying them on. Added "It's what kids do". Laughed. Is it?!? Is trying on sibblings' underwear normal, common childhood behaviour?

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10 months

The future of the Open University’s law degree is, @OU_Law says, “EDI informed”. Teaching of law should not be ‘informed’ by a particular set of social or political ideologies. Students deserve an education, not an indoctrination into an institutionally adopted belief system.

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“Initiate an organized response” is the highest state of trans allyship. Like, say, organising a pile on in the form of an open letter against gender critical colleagues, held to constitute unlawful harassment in Phoenix v OU. The @OpenUniversity was also offering training in

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James Esses

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According to the @FT , their staff are “adversaries” if they are not pro-active allies, willing to “interrupt and educate”. This calls into question the impartiality and integrity of the paper.

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This has worsened during @TimJBlackman ’s vice chancellorship, as sections of his management misguidedly portray enabling violent offenders and sex offenders as EDI in action.

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Well said, Carola. If senior faculty in Europe's largest law school understood the law as well as you do, I wouldn't need to crowdfund and you wouldn't need to donate. Thanks for you pledge 🙏

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1 year

@BrynHarris6 False. Non-discrimination is, rightly, a legal right, not just a moral one. Half-witted EDI operatives chanting “Equality Act” as they break said Act doesn’t show anything’s wrong with the Act. I shows a problem with EDI operatives, which needs to be addressed where it lies.

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1 year

Thank you so much, anonymous OU employee! Thank you for understanding that nothing I (or @JoPhoenix1 or @PilgrimTucker ) ever said is directed against LGBTQ+ people. You have as much to do with the OU's actions here as working class people had to do with the Gulag:

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@EDIQuestions @SVPhillimore You be the judge. Vice Chancellor @TimJBlackman is funnelling deficit-ridden @OpenUniversity 's money into defending harassment and discrimination claims from gender critical academics. In my case the OU asked for a 4-week tribunal hearing so they can call up to 20 witnessess.

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@MisfitYeoman @SpeechUnion The term may be much abused to suggest absurdity, but its use seems apt here. The process described above does contain some of the elements which make Kafka's 'The Trial' a farcical process: An accused having to defend himself against empty accusations not properly put to him.

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@MForstater Sadly, yes. I can imagine it. I have seen it done. Declaring yourself distressed by the presence of someone with the 'wrong' (perfectly lawful) views can earn you victimhood points and kudos. Such prejudice is not just accepted, it's effectively rewarded in some universities.

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Race-related disadvantage and discrimination are serious issues. They should not be trivialised by EDI operatives suggesting the problem is exemplified by hearing one word you don't like, used once and without malice. Unlike the EDI operative in this case, victims of actual

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The Free Speech Union

1 year

"Diversity, equity and exclusion." We've written for @TheCriticMag about our latest legal victory at the employment tribunal, securing what promises to be a substantial pay-out for a dyslexic Lloyds Bank manager sacked in a workplace free speech row!

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@SVPhillimore TQ+ inclusion is also cheaper than disability equality. Making things accessible to disabled users can cost money. Giving women’s rights to males is free. Tackling inequality costs money & effort. Adjusting language/rules/images to please those not suffering inequality is cheap.

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The double standard is astonishing. Humza Yousaf being a Muslim was an "extraordinary badge of honour for Scotland". Kate Forbes' presbyterianism "does not reflect the country she wants to lead," making her "unfit to be first minister of a 21st-century

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@SibylWrites @SVPhillimore @OpenUniversity I actually mentioned Kafka's Trial in the disciplinary investigation, when the investigator wouldn't tell me the accusation against which I was to defend myself. He had complaints from 6 @OU_Law managers, but wouldn't share them, nor tell me what they said, nor who complained.

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Almut Gadow

8 months

Who will become the first employer to lose several successive cases of this nature? Any guesses? Anyone? Anyone?

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Maya Forstater

8 months

This is an important thread by @JoPhoenix1 Just how significant are our tribunal cases? Quite! There have been 5 GC employment tribunal wins so far Bailey, Forstater, Fahmy, Meade, Phoenix For context there are usually around a dozen successful religion/belief a year.

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@BiologyStupid They certainly haven’t announced any change to her role, as far as I can see. They’re just silent on legal advice to the review now, following the twitter storm it triggered, it seems.

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@SVPhillimore Khelif isn't bringing a civil law suit. Khelif has made a criminal complaint of aggravated cyber harrassment to the Paris prosecutors online hate unit, and expects the criminal investigation to identify those who have 'initiated' and 'fuelled' the 'digital lynching'.

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Your lectern at the front of your classroom is given to you for one purpose: To impart your knowledge on the subject your students are studying. Treating your students as a captive audience who will sit through your political speeches is a shocking abuse of your position.

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DIOGO COHEA

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Sydney University student has his class paused so the teacher can dribble on about Europe and the “Far-Right”. “The fascist in Europe are using Islamophobia to gather their ranks. To get more people involved in their movement of hatred” What does this have to do with his

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Does sacking academics and replacing them with EDIdeologues follow on quite logically from letting EDI set curricula and research priorities? If academics portray their own work as a means to an end, a vehicle for promoting EDIdeology, cutting out the

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Nearly half of UK vice-chancellors expect their university to be in financial deficit this year following a drop in the number of lucrative international students.

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Almut Gadow

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Days after applauding the government killing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, UCU condemns an “egregious attack on freedom of expression and academic freedom”. In the same ways Saudi Arabia would stand up for the religious freedom of all Wahhabis.

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We strongly condemn St Andrews’ dismissal of Stella Maris from the university governing board and demand her immediate reinstatement:

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Don't be disingenuous @GaskarthJamie . Of course you have commented on individual @OpenUniversity cases. You commented on a Spectator article that discusses 3 OU cases. When you say 'they picked their fight', it is clear that 'they' are the 3 claimants in those 3 cases.

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Jamie Gaskarth

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@Regenbo5en @Jebadoo2 @OpenUniversity @AlmutGadow I have not commented on individual OU cases. I did comment on the Spectator article, authored by an academic from another institution, implying there was a roving EDI team dictating what we teach (which is and was nonsense).

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Critical race theory can be particularly grating to the interracially married. I reject EDI ideology which would teach my mixed-race daughter that a) her mum embodies whiteness oppressing her and her dad, and b) her dad embodies the patriarchy oppressing her and her mum.

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John Armstrong

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For those wondering about the photo: On the left is Sean Corby who was accused of racism by colleagues for opposing critical race theory. On the right is his wife, Tracy.

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It is particularly worrying to see a trade union campaign *against* its own members’ fundamental rights at work, at a time when those rights are already under significant attack.

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Jon Pike

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It's absolutely clear to me that there is a threat to free speech in UK universities. And it's absolutely clear to me that central agents of that threat are my union @ucu and particularly its GS @DrJoGrady , precisely the agents who should be protecting us, and have failed.

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@AudreySuffolk Any UK university that bangs on about ‘social justice’, ‘post-colonialism’ and ‘gender’ could accept Afghan women denied higher education fee free tomorrow if they wanted. That would allow these women to come here on a student visa right now, without any change of asylum law.

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"If Almut wins, it will increase the freedom of all academics up and down the country to do their job of pursuing the truth"

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The Free Speech Union

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Former law lecturer Almut Gadow was SACKED by the Open University after questioning an EDI diktat to introduce gender ideology into the curriculum. Now she needs your support to bring a potentially groundbreaking legal case against her ex-employer.

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