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University of Sussex overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim

Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29

The truth about the satanic goat creature in Trump’s AI Jesus image

INSIDE STORY: As conspiracists lose their mind over the deeper meaning of Trump’s now-deleted Jesus picture, Charlotte Cripps talks to religious art experts about some of the ‘symbolic’ details that look a little less divine

The Independent UK · Apr 15

Sir Anthony Leggett obituary

Physicist who won a Nobel prize for his work on superfluids and superconductors at Sussex University in the 1970s

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17

High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds

Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2025

The battle for Poland's public media

Poland's new pro-EU government has taken sweeping steps to reform the country's public media outlets. It claims the actions are necessary to restore press independence after eight years of populist rule. But the situation may be more complicated. Until a new independent press is created, the government is benefiting from…

France 24 · Jun 14, 2024

A moment that changed me: I was pregnant at 16 – and a midwife said I was good for nothing. It was a red rag to a bull

All the odds were stacked against me, but there was no way I was going to give up. Instead I began the long, hard road to a good education – and a brilliant career

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023

Essop Pahad: a diligent communist driven by an optimistic vision of a non-racial South Africa

The death of South African freedom struggle stalwart Essop Pahad (84) on 6 July 2023 prompted tributes from his former comrades. There were also less respectful obituaries referring to him as Thabo Mbeki’s “consiglieri”, because of his role as the former president’s “right-hand man”.

The Conversation · Jul 26, 2023

Gerald Moore obituary

Other lives: Expert on African literature who spent much of his time as a lecturer in Nigeria and Uganda

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2023

Students ‘failed’ over ‘crisis’ of sexual assaults at universities amid calls for tougher action

The regulator is urged to step up action as efforts to tackle abuse on campus fall ‘woefully short’

The Independent UK · May 8, 2022

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer chants, Ronaldo reaction and Manchester United moments missed vs Brighton

Here are the moments that you might have missed from Manchester United's dismal 4-0 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion at the Amex Stadium on Saturday.

Manchester Evening News · May 8, 2022