Norman Fenton
New Book published 31 July 2026 How ideology replaced truth in modern universities—and why it matters to everyone. After forty-seven years inside Britain's universities, Norman Fenton explains how political activism came to dominate academic life, rewarding conformity over enquiry and activism over scholarship. Drawing on personal experience and extensive evidence, Fenton argues that what began…
I am finalising my next book "The Capture of Academia: How Universities Abandoned Truth, Enforced Ideology, and Endangered Society". The following is an appendix for the book that lists some illustrative examples of some of the eccentric projects that recieve millions of pounds of tax-payer funding.
On 14 January Dutch political commentator announced that she has been banned from travelling to the UK: Technically it was not a ban, but the cancellation of her ETA. Like many who know Eva, I was shocked by this decision and decided to submit the following Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Home Office asking for the reasons for the ban: Dear Home Office FOI Team, Under the Freedom of…
Or the ingrained commercial snobbery and sabotaging prejudice of structurally rigged UK academic funding In this instalment of my salutary tales exposing systemic failings of British academia (who was I kidding when I said if I had to pick one crystallising incident ), my experience of a grant proposal perfectly encapsulates the antipathy and disdain ivory tower academics have for commercial…
I regularly watch the excellent conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) on YouTube . On 23 November, I clicked on what I assumed was his channel and watched what appeared to be his latest video https://youtu.be/Cj9MP_3ZYBs?si=W3gK3AUdIdeLzCCS . It covered the case of Mark Kelly, the Democratic Senator from Arizona and retired military officer, who had recently been accused of sedition.…
My personal reflections Background Early on 28 July 2024, the day after he held an enormous rally in Trafalgar Square, Tommy Robinson (“also known as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon” as the mainstream media love to remind us) was arrested at Folkestone under the prevention of terrorism act while on his way to Spain. This arrest eventually led to a two-day trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 13 -14…
Summary : The inaugural New Media Conference at the Emmanual Centre in Westminster, hosted by Mahyar Tousi, brought together influential...
Dear Charlotte As a British journalist and commentator known for exposing "government waste, academic capture, ideological absurdity in...
Yesterday was "Holocaust Memorial Day" (HMD). I happened to attend a Jewish community event that was unconnected to HMD, but the...
Exposing the flawed science and statistics behind the COVID-19 event Available now from Amazon in hardback, paperback and eBook (Kindle)...
If ever there was a case of 'garbage in, garbage out' then this is it. And, ultimately it has all been driven by the objective of...
A causal Bayesian explanation and method for handling conflicts Update 8 Sept 2024 : An extensively updated version if this article...
Tonight Channel 5 screened a documentary which looked critically at the evidence in the case of nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of...
In Feb 2024 Israeli hostage Louis Har was reunited with his family after being rescued from Gaza by the IDF. I was so moved by a widely...
One of the most bizarre aspects of the Israel-Hamas conflict has been the way the entire mainstream media accepts without question the...
Anybody who has challenged any part of the official covid narrative (such as daring to say that any of the interventions like lockdowns,...
Who I am Most of my followers on twitter and youtube will know me because of the probability and statistics work I have done challenging the official narrative on covid (and more recently net zero). You could say I am part of what is known as the “Freedom movement”. While many people within the Freedom movement regularly comment on political issues outside of those directly relevant to it, I tried…
Interview with one such prominent sceptic: Dr Scott McLachlan Lucy Letby is a nurse who has been found guilty of 7 counts of murder and 6...
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Will Jones has published an interesting article in the Daily Skeptic that strongly challenges the iatrogenesis hypothesis. This is the...