England Tag

Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ Stage Show Being Rewritten to Avoid Offending Trans People

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 23, 2023 39 Comments

"So here you have something there’s never been a complaint about in 40 years, that I’ve heard of, and now all of a sudden we can’t do it because it’ll offend people."...

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Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in England Hosts ‘Anti-Racist Shakespeare’ Series

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 21, 2023 5 Comments

"brings together scholars and artists of colour from a wide variety of backgrounds to examine Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of race and social justice"...

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Parents in England Outraged as Biological Male Competes in Cricket With Girls as Young as 12

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 18, 2023 31 Comments

"Some parents, disturbed at the significant inequalities of power between young girls and an adult who was born male, have threatened to remove their daughters from their league in response."...

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‘Screaming Mob’ Runs Israeli Arab Pro-Israel Activist Off UK College Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 14, 2023 3 Comments

“There is only one solution, Intifada, Revolution.”...

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London School of Economics Removing ‘Easter’ and ‘Lent’ From Academic Calendar

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 02, 2023 6 Comments

"We have been warning for years that Christians are being pushed from the public square, yet the problem is getting worse"...

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Some British Universities Putting Trigger Warnings on Shakespeare Plays and Greek Tragedies

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2023 11 Comments

"Tragedy is a genre obsessed with violence and suffering, often of a sexual or graphic kind, and so some of the content might be triggering for some students"...

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University of Warwick in England Gives Classic Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ a Trigger Warning

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 03, 2023 2 Comments

“The work includes passages depicting black slaves, who leave medieval characters ‘appalled,’ as well as Arab Muslim captives”...

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Imperial College London Urges Students to Have ‘Hard Conversations’ With Friends and Family Who Deny White Privilege

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 01, 2023 10 Comments

"If you have friends or family who take a different stance on these issues, now is the time to have a hard conversation with them and ask them to rethink their views."...

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University in the UK Puts Trigger Warning on 800 Year-Old Religious Text

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 04, 2022 5 Comments

"Staff also flagged 'outdated' language in the 1970s translation from Latin"...

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Jewish Student Sues Leeds University, Alleging She Got Failing Grade for Being Too Sympathetic to Israel

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 02, 2022 5 Comments

“This is not the first case we’ve come across of students’ being marked down for expressing views sympathetic towards Israel in essays and dissertations”...

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New Discovery Leads University Scientists to Claim Existence of Loch Ness Monster is ‘Plausible’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 28, 2022 9 Comments

"The mythical Scottish beast has been a part of folklore for centuries"...

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“Woke Agenda” At The American School in London Leads To Downgrade by British Officials

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 13, 2022 12 Comments

The exclusive American School in London has been rebuked and downgraded by British officials from Ofsted, the UK's Office of Standards in Education for importing 'woke' American politics. It seems the British are not fans of concepts like white privilege, social justice, and Critical Race Theory.

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How a Pro-Israel Blogger Exposed the Anti-Semitic BDS Movement in London

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 28, 2022 1 Comment

“and suddenly it occurred to me that here I was in the belly of the beast, and that if they found out, I would be in real trouble.”...

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Newman University, Birmingham in the UK Puts a Content Warning on the Bible

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 27, 2022 6 Comments

"Certain passages are flagged up as especially problematic, including a chapter of 2 Samuel in the Old Testament, about David, the King of Israel who had previously slain Goliath."...

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University of Northampton in England Puts Trigger Warning on Orwell’s 1984

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 02, 2022 4 Comments

“There’s a certain irony that students are now being issued trigger warnings before reading Nineteen Eighty-Four”...

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University of Reading in England Edits Classic Greek Poem, Removing Reference to Domestic Violence

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 04, 2022 5 Comments

“If we applied this same kind of censorship to the news we would end up with a most limited and ignorant view of the world”...

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Oxford University Planning to Base New Hiring Practices on Candidates’ ‘Woke Score’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 21, 2021 13 Comments

"could make or break an opportunity to teach at the school"...

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University Fellow Frets That Shakespeare’s Works Could be ‘Triggering’ Due to Lack of Sexual Consent

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 15, 2021 9 Comments

"Women in those plays basically never actually got to consent to sex or marriage, it just happened, despite the fact that often they’d repeatedly said no."...

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