AFAF Media Coverage
7 April 2009, Philanthropy or propaganda, by Anthea Lipsett, Guardian:
March 2009, Is saying what you think dead? Guardian/Free-D:
15 December 2008, The Free Society: Taking liberties with liberty, by Dennis Hayes:
http://www.thefreesociety.org/Issues/Free-Speech/taking-liberties-with-liberty31 October 2008, The Free Society: Time to No Platform ‘No Platform,’ by Dennis Hayes and Richard Reynolds, :
http://www.thefreesociety.org/Issues/Free-Speech/time-to-no-platform-no-platform26 September 2008, TES: Let extremists have their say in class, by Dennis Hayes:
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=60030003 June 2008, spiked-online: Freedom is not an academic matter, by Dennis Hayes:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5222/04 March 2008: the free society Academic freedom means free speech and no “buts”, by Dennis Hayes:
http://www.thefreesociety.org/Issues/Free-Speech/academic-freedom-means-free-speech-and-no-buts01 March 2008: Academic Freedom – a call for papers, Editorial, by James Arthur, British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 56. Issue 1:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8527.2008.00399.x15 February 2008 THE: appointments:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=40054004 February 2008: the free society Artists and academics unite to support The Free Society, by Simon Clark:
http://www.thefreesociety.org/Press-Office/Press-Releases/artists-and-academics-unite-to-support-the-free-society01 February 2008: Battles in Print No academic freedom or no ideas? by Dennis Hayes:
http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/battles/1067 4 January 2008: THES SA lecturer’s ‘freedom to criticise’ verdict welcomed by UK academics, by Melanie Newman:
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=203963003 December 2007: The Journal Education Minister undermines NUS, by Sarah Clark The Journal (Edinburgh):
http://www.journal-online.co.uk/articles/show/277527 November 2007: Guardian East Anglia students reject NUS policy on fascists, by Anthea Lipsett:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/politics/story/0,,2217799,00.html26 November 2007 sp!ked Just say no to ‘No Platform’, by Richard Reynolds:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4117/23 November 2007: THES Brown softens stand in extremism debate, by Melanie Newman
02 November 2007: THES Academe is guilty of institutional cowardice, by Richard Reynolds, UEA student and founder of SAFAF
02 November 2007: THES Right to speak is threatened, by Melanie Newman – a report on the Battle of Ideas discussion:
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=203887127 October 2007: AFAF sponsored a discussion entitled 'Academic Freedom Under Threat' at
The Battle of Ideas:
http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/session_detail/141/ 25 October 2007: THES Free speech wins the day, by Melanie Newman
28 September 2007: THES UK lowest on freedom list, by Louise Radnofsky:
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx05 July 2007: The Independent Against The Grain: It is an academic's right to cause 'reasoned' offence, Steve Fuller (interviewed by Nick Jackson) The Independent 5 July 2007:
http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article2734945.ece29 June 2007: HERO website: The Freedom to Offend, by Milly Shaw:
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/inside_he/the_freedom_to_offend.cfm08 June 2007: CHURCH TIMES Education: No letting the side down, by Dennis Hayes with a reply by Kenneth Stevenson, Church Times, Issue No 7526: pp24-5:
June 2007: AFAF is mentioned in the ‘News’ section of the journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Significance 4 (2), 50–53.
18 May 2007: THES When firing off can get you fired... by Phil Baty and Tony Tysome:
13 April 2007: THES Freedom is at the heart of what we believe, by Kenneth Stevenson:
April-June 2007: The Philosophers' Magazine: Academic Freedom, Steve Fuller and Alan Haworth debate the AFAF statement, Issue 38, 2nd Quarter 2007: pp72-77:
16 March 2007: THES Debate rages despite advice, by Melanie Newman
16 March 2007: THES Ethos may be a foe to freedom, by Melanie Newman
16 March 2002: THES Faith threat to free speech, by Melanie Newman:
08 March 2007: Daily Mail Oxford protestors 'hounding out' professor who spoke up on immigration issues, by Fiona Barton
02 March 2007: THES Make freedom to offend legal
02 March 2007: THES Bid to oust don is 'witch-hunt', by Rebecca Attwood
13 February 2007: Filósofos lanzan una campaña por la libertad:
February 2007: Judisk Krönika, Akademiska och kulturella bojkotter är censur förklädd till radikal politick, by Nathalie Rothschild, 2007 No.1 p31:
February 2007: National Student Academics fight for the right to offend
31 January 2007: PI Magazine UCL Academics Call For Freedom of Speech, by Sarah Crosby
02 January 2007: THES More support call for unfettered freedom, by Phil Baty January 2007: Philosophy Now Philo Launches Academic Freedom Campaign, by Sue Roberts, Issue 59, January/February 2007
January-March 2007: The Philosophers’ Magazine, In Brief, Issue 37, First Quarter 2007: p9
27 December 2006: Support the Academics for Academic Freedom Campaign, by Aaron Sloman:http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/academic-freedom.html
22 December 2006: Manchester Evening News Scholars demand ‘right to be offensive’:
22 December 2006: The BBC Academics Seek Right To Offend
22 December 2006: The Guardian Academics Call for Unfettered Free Speech, by Alexandra Smith
22 December 2006: The Herald Academics demand freedom to express offensive views, by Alan MacDermid
21 December 2006: THES Scholars demand the right to be offensive, by Phil Baty
21 December 2006: THES Verbal brawling is just what the academy needs, by Dennis Hayes
21 December 2006: THES Leader: Can Academics Be Entirely Free?