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Some of the Tories’ ‘anti-woke warriors’ seem unaware that protection of speech in parliament does not extend to social media
On 28 October, Michelle Donelan, the secretary of state for science, published a letter expressing her “disgust and outrage” that two academics who had been appointed to an advisory group had been “sharing some extremist views on social media”.
It was an extremely serious accusation levelled against two researchers who had just joined a Research England advisory group on equality, diversity and inclusion. Donelan wanted the group disbanded.
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