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BBC News The controversy has attracted a range of opinions, including within the academic community. Kathleen Stock, a philosopher and former professor at Sussex University, said Arday’s hire was motivated by universities being “desperate for good press”. “The elite universities like Cambridge and Oxford had a particular problem because they are perceived to be quite […]

BBC News Approaching the second week of August and City have only signed one player, Elliot Anderson, who is likely to be in the first XI this season. The fee paid to Nottingham Forest for the England international is a club record £116m, with the 23-year-old seemingly a replacement for Bernardo Silva, who departed at […]

BBC News ACC Dean promised “robust action” to the disorder, adding: “We will always facilitate and support the right to peaceful protest, and we recognise that people may hold strong views and feelings about issues. “Our role is to keep people safe. We have a duty to protect everyone in our communities, maintain public order […]

BBC News It is at this point Cambridge faces questions about whether it was defending its own reputation as much as an individual academic. Just a couple of weeks ago, the university was briefing journalists that this was a campaign against a black academic, its appointment system was rigorous, and it would be robustly defended. […]

BBC News Amanda Knox, a woman involved in one of the world’s most famous murder cases, is set to perform a comedy show at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Knox was convicted and later acquitted of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy in 2007. Knox’s show, Cartwheel, is about motherhood and how she will […]

BBC News Two human rights groups have said an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon that killed al-Akhbar newspaper reporter Amal Khalil and seriously wounded freelance camera operator Zeinab Faraj was an apparent war crime. Separate reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International concluded that the journalists were targeted while reporting in the town of […]

BBC News The administration has sought to assure Americans that US missile stockpiles remain robust, even after the military used vast quantities of difficult-to-manufacture weapons during the combat operation known as Operation Epic Fury and the tit-for-tat strikes since. CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, reported the US has used much of its global stockpile […]

BBC News Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ordered an urgent review of grooming gang cases involving offenders that may be eligible to be freed from jail early under the government’s release scheme. The announcement of the review comes after Tory leader Kemi Badenoch raised concerns that child sex offenders could leave jail well before the […]