The vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Irene Tracey, has been giving some gloriously counterintuitive advice recently on how to safeguard free speech in academia. On Tuesday, she claimed that teaching the ethos of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) ‘goes hand in hand with our commitment to academic freedom and free speech.’ Yet diversity training always has the opposite effect. The only things students inducted into the race-obsessed, hyper-liberal doctrine of EDI are likely to learn is what words not to say and what opinions not to air in order to avoid ostracism, censure or cancellation

‘Kindness’ is the velvet glove covering the iron fist of hyper-liberalism

The next day, speaking at an academic summit in Saudi Arabia, Professor Tracey continued in a similar vein. ‘Wor

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