An Oxford University chief has waded into a trans row that has rocked the institution. Professor Martin Williams—one of Oxford’s pro-vice-chancellors—said students must “encounter and confront difficult views” after attempts to ban a gender-critical speaker from a university event. Leading feminist Kathleen Stock has been invited to speak by members of the Oxford Union at…

The UK government is assessing the national security risk of all Sino–British research and innovation links, a minister said on Wednesday. Responding to concerns raised by Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael about national security risks in genomics, particularly in collaborating with Chinese genomics company BGI, science minister George Freeman said MPs are “well aware that we have to…