In more good news for British universities, “woke waste” is now gaining traction in the UK media, and firmly in the firing line are mad-sounding research projects at the taxpayers’ expense. According to a joint investigation by The Sun and the Taxpayer’s Alliance, millions of pounds are being robbed from the pockets of hard-working citizens so that academics can investigate “TikTok dancing, ‘queer animals’ & pro-trans robots”. Over on Charlotte Gill’s Substack, we find industrial levels of outrage about such projects as “Glitching cisgenderism” (£185K); “The Europe that gay porn built” (£840K); and “Re-Indigenizing Victorian Studies” (£34K).
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