Attacks on Education, Assaults on Language: Progressive Dumbing Down for Control – UK Column News
Tue 7:28 pm +00:00, 3 Dec 2024Full news and all the source links: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-2nd-december-2024
– James Esses (on X): James Esses’ post
“We are not ‘cis male’ or ‘cis female’. We are simply male or female. No prefix required.”
– The Economist: Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman is
– New Statesman: The Scottish government is ignoring women’s rights
– The Telegraph: Has ‘wokeness’ killed the English literature degree? (Archived)
– Daily Express: Woke row as university orders lecturers to ‘problematise’ being white and heterosexual
– Committee For Academic Freedom: The QAA tells academics to decolonise Classics and Maths
– GOV.UK: Citizen Space: Curriculum and Assessment Review
“We’re seeking views from stakeholders to share their perspective on potential improvements to the curriculum and assessment system.”
– The University of Manchester Library: Our vision, mission and values
– RTÉ: Publisher pulls school book over depiction of Irish family
– The Telegraph: Welsh Government vows to change ‘beliefs and behaviour of the white majority’ (Archived)
– Elgar Online: The Strategy of Maoism in the West
– AbeBooks: Politics & the English Language by George Orwell
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”
