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A Plea for Less Censorship

If you ever want to feel good about the world, go to The Guardian and search for their cartoons section. From Edith Pritchett’s Venn diagrams to some quite hilarious political…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “I believe literature is in peril.”

In November 2022, beloved Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a BBC Reith Lecture on “Freedom of Speech”. As an Edinburgh English Lit student, I found it a refreshing, enlightening,…

Trans Solidarity Community Event takes place on Edinburgh University campus

CW: Transphobia Students and staff at the University of Edinburgh gathered on Wednesday evening to show solidarity with the Trans community in Edinburgh. The event, ‘Trans Solidarity Community Event’, was…

Rector convenes meeting with students and staff

The fourth and final of a series of discussions held by the University of Edinburgh’s Rector Debora Kayembe took place on Thursday 14 October in New College. Under the watchful…

Oxbridge student groups immune from free speech laws

Oxbridge students are immune from the legal restrictions imposed by the government’s Higher Education Freedom of Speech bill. This has led to mass frustration with Labour MPs protesting that this…

Love him or hate him, Britain needs Piers Morgan

I strongly disagree with him on most issues, but we need journalists like Piers Morgan doing what they do. Before we embark on this unique defence of Piers Morgan, let…

Turning Point UK asks students to report ‘left-wing bias’ on university campuses

A right-wing group associated with pro-Trump organisations in the United States has launched a website asking students to report incidents of “left-wing bias” by lecturers, forming a public list of…

Ban of religious group on campus goes against freedom of speech

Everyone who is not currently in their first year of studying at the University of Edinburgh will have probably seen the members of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints walking…