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A sacked Eton College tutor at the centre of a free speech row has today lost his appeal.
The governing body of the £42,500-a-year Berkshire college has upheld the decision of school chiefs to sack Will Knowland.
The English teacher was dismissed over an online lecture tackling radical feminism and the concept of toxic masculinity .
His dismissal, for reportedly refusing to take down his lecture from his personal YouTube channel, sparked outrage among students, who immediately launched a petition for Mr Knowland to be reinstated.
It also plunged the private school, which is currently closed due to a Covid-19 outbreak, into a row over its supposedly woke values under current headmaster Simon Henderson.