University strike View in your browser Tuesday February 20 2018 Must reads ◆ Plans by the nation's leading academics to escalate strike action are threatening to disrupt exams at universities, including Oxford and Cambridge ◆ The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine scare is having damaging effects as new figures reveal a massive rise in measles cases across Europe ◆ Communist spies hoped to gain information about the British secret services when they approached Jeremy Corbyn, according to officials at the Czechoslovak secret police archive News University strike puts final exams in danger Students at the country’s leading universities face having their final-year exams cancelled after academics announced plans to escalate their strikes Read the full story Charity sex scandal: Oxfam chief Mark Goldring investigated over handling of sex claim The head of Oxfam is under investigation for his handling of a sexual assault case, The Times has learnt Read the full story We will not undercut EU after Brexit, Davis insists Britain will never use Brexit to slash environmental and social rules in order to give the UK a competitive advantage after leaving the EU, ministers will pledge today Read the full story #MeToo taking past sex crimes out of context, says Mary Beard The #MeToo movement is too focused on isolated incidents of male misconduct and must do more than simply “collect scalps”, Mary Beard has said Read the full story Comment This muddle is as bad as the dementia tax Rachel Sylvester: The Tories’ student fees review risks serious damage to universities and will fail miserably to win over younger voters Read the full story Brexit bashing is an attempt to stifle free speech Melanie Phillips: Intellectuals who champion life outside the EU are the latest victims of the thought police Read the full story World Assad and Kurds in deal to halt Turkish offensive The Assad regime and Turkey were headed for a direct military confrontation in Syria last night after Damascus said that its forces would join the Kurds to defend the region of Afrin from the advancing Turkish army Read the full story Trump official Rick Gates ‘ to cut deal’ in Russia inquiry A former senior Trump campaign official is expected to cut a deal with prosecutors and co-operate with the Russia investigation, piling pressure on other targets of the inquiry to seek similar arrangements Read the full story Business ‘Contemptuous’ Carillion chiefs refused pension plea Directors of Carillion were “contemptuous” of their obligations to the company’s 29,000 pension fund members while regulators intervened to help far too late, MPs investigating the collapse of the construction group suggested yesterday Read the full story A classic Hermès is the place to stash cash Grace Kelly’s namesake Hermès bag and the Chanel classic flap bag may have engendered long waiting lists, but handbags are probably not most people’s idea of a good investment Read the full story Sport Furious City self-destruct as Wigan cause Cup shock Pep Guardiola was involved in a heated tunnel row and Sergio Agüero appeared to strike a Wigan Athletic fan as Manchester City lost their discipline and crashed out of the FA Cup last night Read the full story Winter sports may lose cash Funding chiefs will meet next month to start a review into whether the £32 million handed out to Britain’s Winter Olympic and Paralympic sports is the best use of that money, it can be revealed Read the full story Times2 Hello, boys: do you feel objectified? Emily Maitlis meets the Chippendales The Chippendales strip, simulate sex and are pawed at on stage — the Newsnight presenter meets them and asks about all those handsy women Read the full story Matthew Parris: #MeToo gets it all wrong. And I say that as someone who was stalked For years Matthew Parris was harassed by a woman, but he never thought of himself as a victim. Defiance, not self-pity, is the route to empowerment, he says Read the full story Register Obituary: David Vaughan, QC An expert in European law with a sometimes baffling turn of phrase, David Vaughan helped to build up one of the most powerful sets of chambers Read the full story Scotland Scottish ministers set to reject devolved EU powers Scottish ministers are to knock back a key Downing Street concession designed to break the deadlock over Brexit this week Read the full story Pressure for last single-sex state school to admit boys Campaigners who want Scotland’s last single-sex state school to open its doors to boys have claimed widespread support for overturning more than a century of tradition Read the full story Ireland Garda emails ‘conundrum’ delays hotel shooting trial The Regency Hotel shooting trial has been adjourned until Thursday after the prosecution said new material presented by the state had raised “unprecedented conundrums” Read the full story Fianna Fáil vulture fund plan threat to coalition The confidence and supply arrangement between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is coming under pressure amid tensions over legislation to prevent so-called vulture funds from buying residential mortgage books Read the full story Follow us You have received this email as part of your membership entitlement. 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