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Public Toilets and the Limits of Freedom
20 August 2010 6:10 PM | 1 Comment -
Smoke and Mirrors
15 August 2010 6:06 PM | No Comments -
A Bloody Misalliance: Radical Islam and Infantile Marxism
13 August 2010 5:04 PM | No Comments -
The Bareback Porn Renegades
26 July 2010 6:27 PM | 4 Comments -
Edwin Rostron, ‘Morris and the Other’
10 July 2010 2:29 PM | No Comments -
Should Universities Employ Bigots?
10 July 2010 1:44 PM | No Comments -
Michael McCarthy, ‘English Exam’
10 July 2010 12:32 PM | No Comments -
An Abhorrent Assault on Sexual Freedom
06 July 2010 6:52 PM | 1 Comment
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Debate Archive
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Fettering Freedom of Expression
Posted on May 29, 2010 | No CommentsFollowing the Leeds Salon debate on ‘Freedom of Expression’, Paul Thomas examines Leeds University’s ‘Protocol on Freedom of Expression’. -
Freedom of Expression and the University (May, Leeds Salon)
Posted on May 19, 2010 | No CommentsOn Thursday 20th of May, Leeds Salon will host a debate on 'Freedom of Expression and the University'. -
Fear and Loathing in Leeds
Posted on April 30, 2010 | No CommentsPhillip Dickinson argues that Leeds University Union's 'No Platform' position poses a far greater threat to democracy than the BNP. -
A Response to ‘The Delusion of Free Will’
Posted on December 16, 2009 | 1 CommentWhat Mr Broderick says in his article (or rather, allows Madeleine Bunting to say in hers without any cross-examination) is that free will is an illusion, and that humans are collective beings acting in a cosmos — that this justifies spiritual enquiry, and that Hitchens/Dawkins et al. are nasty for attacking 'god' as the vicious god of the Old Testament when 'god' is just a word used to describe the "infinite and transcendent merging of the individualised sense of awareness with the wider dimension". -
The Depoliticisation of Prostitution
Posted on December 9, 2009 | No CommentsKatherine Sansom argues that the depoliticisation of the prostitution debate has emptied the issue out of all its meaning. -
Disunited Against Fascism
Posted on November 24, 2009 | 2 CommentsDanny Broderick attended an EDL rally and found the reality to be at odds with the UAF's official position. -
Quest Love After Love
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsI would like to illustrate a problem we face as teachers of English and of poetry in particular. It is time to ask a few questions about how British pupils study poetry and what they are expected to know about it at the end of compulsory education. I will argue that, rather than being asked to provide a personal response to a poem, supported by evidence from the text, pupils would benefit from notes and a critical commentary drawing on some of the most insightful interpretations by literary critics and providing all the contextual information necessary to understand the poem.