EDUCATION
Oxford academics rise up to defend Kathleen Stock’s right to free speech
The former University of Sussex professor was hounded out of her post after expressing her views on gender
Dr Marie Daouda signed a letter supporting Kathleen Stock’s right to have a platform at the Oxford Union
ADRIAN SHERRATT FOR THE TIMES
Reflecting on his time at Oxford, William Gladstone credited its august colleges and dreaming spires with inculcating “a reverence for what was ancient and free and great”.
Nearly a century and a half on, the University of Oxford will next week face a significant test of its attitude towards freedom of speech. Up to 1,000 protesters are preparing a campus picket in a dispute over the decision by the Oxford Union (OU) to invite the feminist professor Kathleen Stock to give a talk on gender.
It has caused the student union to sever ties from the 200-year-old debating society and provoked claims that it is attempting to “no-platform” Stock and silence her views. Now, a group of Oxford dons have banded together against what they
