Professor Sarah Gilbert said it would not be safe for them to do a so-called ‘challenge trial’ of Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate An Oxford academic today dismissed the idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 to test the university’s experimental vaccine because no treatment currently exists to keep patients safe. Hopes of ending the Covid-19 … Read more
A leading Australian academic has slammed celebrity chef Pete Evans for interviewing Holocaust denier David Icke on his podcast this week. Evans, 47, who has sparked controversy for sharing dangerous conspiracies about vaccines, COVID-19 and the 5G network, announced on Monday night that he’d just spent two ‘enlightening’ hours interviewing Icke, 68. Icke is known … Read more
The University of Cambridge has spoken out in support of one of its lecturers who was hit by a wave of abusive messages and death threats for tweeting ‘White Lives Don’t Matter’. Dr Priyamvada Gopal, 51, who teaches in the Faculty of English at Churchill College, took to the social media platform on Tuesday evening to write: … Read more
Fury as academic defends pulling down statues on Radio 4 and tells the station that actions by Black Lives Matter protesters could be seen as an ‘energising source of hope’ An academic defended toppling statues on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day Professor Tina Beattie’s comments provoked anger among some listeners Beattie claimed the … Read more
Private schools plan to ignore Government advice and open in the new academic year ‘come what may’ Private schools plan to defy official advice and open at the new academic year Some fee-paying schools are organising their own track and trace systems One governor at a leading private school said headteachers are ‘furious’ with the … Read more
Britons should be wearing protective face masks to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, according to a leading public health academic. Professor John Ashton CBE, former regional director of public health for north-west England, has been heavily critical of the government’s response to coronavirus, The co-founder of the World Health Organisation’s Healthy Cities Project, also criticised the … Read more
The UK should be braced for food rationing because relying on the public to exercise shopping restraint simply ‘won’t work’, according to an academic expert. Bryce Evans, associate professor of history and politics at Liverpool Hope University, said we’re not at crisis point yet, and urged people not to panic buy. But he’s also calling … Read more