...which is apparently controversial:
A Cambridge philosophy professor who caused a row by inviting a gender-critical author to speak at the university has joined the equalities watchdog.
Arif Ahmed was one of two appointments to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister, has announced.
The professor at Gonville and Caius College provoked a dispute in October when he invited Helen Joyce to speak. Professor Pippa Rogerson, the college master, said at the time she would not attend the event because she found the Irish journalist’s views “offensive, insulting and hateful”.
Ahmed, 48, has also begun a series of sessions at the college in which he organises debates around the history and importance of freedom of speech....
Some will regard Ahmed’s appointment as controversial because he has campaigned against what critics see as a move among university student unions and faculties to shut down free speech around sensitive issues.
(Thanks to Neil Webb for the pointer.)
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