Brittany Lauga says she was attacked in her home constituency, and that other women were too.
Fifty years ago this week, Lord Hailsham laid the foundation stone for the University of Buckingham. Even back in the 1970s, eminent scholars feared the increasing encroachment of the state on higher education, with deleterious consequences for academic freedom if it was allowed to continue. If a university could be created that did not receive government funding, they argued, then it could escape the need for state regulations. Buckingham was born as a beacon for independence, a bastion of free
Zak Hania was blocked from leaving the besieged enclave in November when his wife and four sons crossed the border into Egypt.