A British-Australian academic who spent two years in an Iranian jail has announced she has divorced her husband after discovering he was having an affair with her friend and colleague while she was imprisoned. Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Islamic studies scholar, was freed last November in a prisoner swap deal after spending 804 days in … Read more
Australian academic and former Iranian prisoner Kylie Moore-Gilbert has made a ‘personal announcement’ online revealing she has officially divorced her husband. Dr Moore-Gilbert, an Islamic studies scholar, was freed last November in a prisoner swap deal after spending 804 days in an Iranian jail on trumped-up spying charges. But upon her return she discovered her … Read more
Regular Covid testing will result in a ‘public health disaster’ with thousands forced needlessly to self-isolate, an academic has warned. Officials hope the multi-billion-pound scheme, under which everyone in England will be invited to take two free tests a week, will help to ease the country out of lockdown safely. The Prime Minister insisted it … Read more
An Australian academic who spent 804 days in one of Iran‘s toughest prisons on trumped-up spying charges has detailed abuse by an obsessive troll. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was released by Iran in a prisoner swap deal in November, was accused of being an Israeli agent several times by Tim Anderson, who was sacked by Sydney … Read more
A Cambridge academic has been slammed for questioning whether the chairman of a race report has a doctorate, before saying: ‘Even Dr Goebbels had a research PhD.’ Dr Priyamvada Gopal, 53, asked whether she was right to think Dr Tony Sewell – who oversaw the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities – was ‘not in fact Dr’. … Read more
A politics lecturer has hit out at Liverpool University’s plans to drop the name of former Prime Minister William Gladstone from a building because of his family’s links to the slave trade. The university emailed staff on Tuesday confirming that the plans to rename the Gladstone Hall student accommodation building, which were initially announced in … Read more
Pupils in England who have lost out on significant learning time as a result of the cycle of coronavirus lockdowns should be allowed to repeat an academic year, a damning report has urged. The Education Policy Institution is calling on the government to consider allowing students to repeat a year of education, where this is supported … Read more
We are living in stressful times: no wonder so many of us have taken refuge in our gardens and in the quiet corners of our potting sheds. Can there be a more harmless, innocent diversion than gardening? We all know it’s good for body and soul and our mental health. But the green-fingered ranks of … Read more
Professor Neil Ferguson’s argument for lockdown was ‘too good to be true’, says Swedish academic who accuses Imperial College London of ‘going beyond the data’ to support draconian measures Neil Ferguson co-wrote paper in June claiming restrictions cut the virus’s R-rate The first coronavirus wave subsided in Sweden without draconian measures Kristian Soltecz, of Sweden’s … Read more
Retired Swedish academic, 89, is killed in a fire at her semi-detached £750,000 Norwich home as police arrest a teenager who knew her Vera Croghan was found dead after a fire at her home in Unthank Road today A man in his late teens who knew her was arrested and questioned by police Mrs Croghan used … Read more