University ‘snooped’ on academics in hunt for chief’s affair leak

University ‘snooped’ on academics in hunt for chief’s affair leak

The University of Buckingham ‘snooped’ on staff emails in a bid to trace the source of a leak to The Telegraph about its vice-chancellor’s personal life, it has emerged.Senior officials at the university, which has long been known for its commitment to free speech, admitted to conducting a “general trawl of emails” to determine whether academics had forwarded messages to journalists regarding Prof James Tooley, its ‘anti-woke’ vice-chancellor.Th…