Professor Stephen Curry is leading a campaign to remove @elonmusk as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written an open letter calling for his expulsion that, so far, has attracted 2,300 signatures.

The Royal Society is a self-governing fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists. @elonmusk was made a Fellow in 2018.

In its 364-year history, only two Fellows have been expelled, one in 1709 for not paying his dues, and another in 1775 for fraud. To expel someone for their political views would be unprecedented and would do far more to bring the Royal Society into disrepute than anything @elonmusk has ever said

Curry is not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He’s a university EDI bureaucrat – a ‘diversitycrat’ – with a long track record as a cancel-culture warrior.

He is also one of the architects of disturbing plans to embed compliance with anti-scientific and discriminatory EDI theories into research funding in the UK. 🧵 During Curry’s tenure as Assistant Provost EDI at Imperial College, he led the charge against academic freedom and in favour of critical-theory based EDI at Imperial.

Some of this was comical, such as the following suggestion on Imperial’s website about how to be a good ‘LGBTQ+ ally’: “Offer to accompany a trans or non-binary person to the bathroom, so they do not have to face any potential transphobia alone.”

But other aspects of Imperial’s EDI policy were nakedly authoritarian, e.g. the College said it had ‘‘zero tolerance” for “transphobia”, which was defined as “denying [someone’s] gender identity or refusing to accept it”, e.g. ‘misgendering’ a trans person.
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🧵Why does the Labour Government want to “ensure greater consistency between academies and maintained schools by requiring all schools to teach the national curriculum”? 1/6

At present, free schools – a subset of academies – don’t have to teach the national curriculum. Instead, they’ve developed their own curriculums.

In the case of the Knowledge Schools Trust, which I co-founded, the schools teach a knowledge-based curriculum they have spent over 10 years developing and which we’ve shared with more than 100 other schools. 2/6

The Twitter Files really bring home that identifying any content that’s counter-narrative as ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ is the way agents of the state or deep state (and their allies or soon to be bosses) get social media companies to remove it. This is currently the greatest threat to free speech we face — and the Online Safety Bill will make it worse because it will empower Ofcom to fine social media companies up to 10% of their annual global turnover if they don’t enforce their terms of service — and we now know those

Just flicking through Penny Mordaunt's book. Glowing foreword by Bill Gates, full of praise for China, relentless promotion of the LGBTQ+ agenda, wants to ditch the MBE and OBE, thinks more 'hate speech' should be censored... Great pitch for the leadership... of the Labour Party. Here are some quotes from the book: "It Aint Half Hot, Mum featured... casual racism, homophobia, white privilege, colonialism, transphobia..."