Cambridge Colleges Orders Students into Mandatory “Inclusivity Training”

More woke in action from Cambridge colleges. Steve Watson covers the story:

"Gonville and Caius College, one of Cambridge's oldest foundations, is compelling its undergraduates to attend mandatory "inclusivity training" from the start of term.

The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK, a 'charity' activist organisation whose own materials tell students their free speech rights may be restricted [free speech is "refined and restricted" by other obligations], that "Islamophobia is a crime", and that a facial expression can count as harm.

The order lands in the same university that spent the better part of two years investigating a philosopher for lawful speech, and in the same education system that has spent 2026 drilling children in white privilege, "racism requires power", and compulsory hijabs.

According to an email from the college's education and tutorial office, seen by The Spectator, "attendance by undergraduate students is mandatory. It is important for the community as a whole to ensure a collective and unified response." The course, due to run from the week commencing 5 October, will cover "demonstrating inclusive behaviours" and "recognition of a hate incident and its impact."

A Caius spokesman told The Spectator the college had, "in consultation with student representatives," committed to "hosting facilitated discussions around inclusivity to support the whole community at Caius."

That is a softer description than the email students actually received. Mandatory attendance and a demand for a "collective and unified response" is not a discussion. It is an instruction.

Stop Hate UK has published a video telling university students they must always display "positive attitudes" and "use respectful and kind language that will not cause harm or offence."

Its syllabus for educational settings tells students that free speech should be "restricted by other duties, responsibilities, and legislative and contractual obligations," and teaches them how "opinions, attitudes and prejudice are influenced and shaped by unconscious bias, media bias, fake news, etc."

Andrew Gilligan, writing in The Spectator, put the obvious question: "How will students be required to 'demonstrate' that their behaviour is 'inclusive?'" The charity's own glossary supplies an answer of sorts. It speaks of "microaggressions" and "micro-inequities," including "unintentional comments" and "unconscious messages" that "devalue and discourage people… conveyed through facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, choice of words."

Hate incidents, it says, can include "abusive gestures" or "malicious complaints about parking."

The Free Speech Union called the scheme another mark of Cambridge's intellectual decline, and of the way activist groups have been emboldened by the government's non-statutory "anti-Muslim hostility" definition."

https://modernity.news/2026/10/02/cambridge-university-declares-free-speech-should-be-restricted/