The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don’t dare voice’ their ‘reasonable dissent’ and attacking me personally. The salvo coincides with the High Court considering the university’s request for judicial review of the Office for Students’ decision against the University. I was not the only Sussex academic named in Biggar’s hit piece, but this response is mine alone. It focuses on what he said about me and unnamed colleagues in the Anthropology Department. The ‘hook’ for Biggar’s […]