The University of Bristol has banned the public from a feminist society’s event with a lawyer critical of the contentious charity Stonewall.
A group of students invited Akua Reindorf KC, a commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), to campus for a panel discussion with leading lawyers about protecting women’s rights.
But bosses at the leading Russell Group institution imposed a series of strict conditions, including that it “be limited to staff and students only on the grounds of health and safety and the deterrence of public disorder”.
Women Talk Back, the feminist society behind the debate, was also ordered to pay £340 towards half of the security costs and told it must have “an experienced chairperson”, which left the group on the brink of axing the event.
Instead, the Free Speech Union has intervened to fund a new venue off campus under its Mctaggart donor fund.
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