Academic freedom
“Watch me take a knife to your throat”: The erosion of academic freedom at LSE has culminated in threats of physical violence, The Critic, 8 August 2021
Oxford’s submission to Stonewall, Sex Matters, 6 June 2021
Free speech at Oxford: do women have the right to defend their sex?, Oxford Magazine, Hilary Term 2020 Free speech on campus: a response to Liberty’s Corey Stoughton, Oxford Magazine, Hilary Term 2019 How queer theory became university policy, Uncommon Ground, November 2018 Free speech at Oxford: do women have the right to meet to discuss legislation?, April 2018
‘Recognising the vital importance of free expression for the life of the mind, a university may make rules concerning the conduct of debate but should never prevent speech that is lawful.
Inevitably, this will mean that members of the University are confronted with views that some find unsettling, extreme or offensive.’
—University of Oxford’s policy on freedom of speech
‘If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.’
—John Stuart Mill, 1859
Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford