The BBC has pulled a University Challenge Christmas special episode from its festive schedule following complaints by two disabled contestants. According to BBC News, one blind and one neurodivergent ...
Conservative peer Baroness Jacqueline Foster issued a public apology Wednesday and paid substantial damages to Melika Gorgianeh, a doctoral student at Oxford University, after false claims that an ...
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Contestants on the long-running BBC quiz show University Challenge have ...
The BBC refuted suggestions Tuesday that an octopus mascot on quiz show University Challenge was a veiled attack against Jewish people after some viewers likened the toy to antisemitic imagery used in ...
An episode of Britain’s BBC game show University Challenge has been falsely suggested online to show contestants, as well as the broadcaster itself, reacting with an antisemitic trope to the 2023 ...