Attacking Academic Freedom: The Case of The Nottingham Two and a Whistleblower
At the University of Nottingham (UoN), recent events suggest that academic freedom – the freedom to carry out research and to present the result of that research in the public domain without fear of disciplinary action, dismissal, or infringements upon our civil liberties – may very well have become a casualty in the so-called ‘war on terror’. On 4 May this year, Dr. Rod Thornton, a former British soldier and an expert on...