RCP/Spiked/IoI

[chilango]

They're against milkshaking, unsurprisingly.

 

[Poi E]

So yes to terrorism and child porn, no to milkshakes. OK.

 

[flypanam]

The Canterbury cabal are running this Academics For Academic Freedom - Free speech, no ifs no buts but it does have a handy list Statement Signatories

founded by Dennis Hayes https://www.spiked online.com/author/dennis-hayes/

 

[Kaka Tim]

So yes to terrorism and child porn, no to milkshakes. OK.

you are allowed to spread lies and hatred and to try and intimidate women you disagree with via rape threats. But not to express your disapproval of such behaviour by chucking a drink. cos free speech.

 

[chilango]

The Canterbury cabal are running this Academics For Academic Freedom - Free speech, no ifs no buts but it does have a handy list Statement Signatories

founded by Dennis Hayes https://www.spiked online.com/author/dennis-hayes/

Relieved to see that I only know one person on the list and that's in the past.

 

[tim]

Relieved to see that I only know one person on the list and that's in the past.

Amazed to see that you had the stamina to read the entire list.

 

[Poi E]

The Canterbury cabal are running this Academics For Academic Freedom - Free speech, no ifs no buts but it does have a handy list Statement Signatories

founded by Dennis Hayes https://www.spiked online.com/author/dennis-hayes/

"and to put forward controversial and unpopular opinions, whether or not these are deemed offensive."

Can't believe any academic worth their salt signed up to this. Academics would get a free pass on hate speech not available to others. Fuck off. If they want to advocate an entrenched right of free speech available to all, fine.

 

[Brainaddict]

The Canterbury cabal are running this Academics For Academic Freedom - Free speech, no ifs no buts but it does have a handy list Statement Signatories

founded by Dennis Hayes https://www.spiked online.com/author/dennis-hayes/

Wow, let's call this the Right To Be Racist Register. I see one person I know from student fees protest days. He was always a liberal but I didn't realise his grasp of power relations was this shoddy.

Actually, he defended John Rawls to me. Should have known then.

 

[eoin_k]

From the comments, half the signatories don't seem to have a clue about the agenda behind the petition. Plenty of people giving out about the Research Excellence Framework and government interference in higher education, or raising issues about their own situation in Palestine, or wherever they happen to be.

 

[eoin_k]

Oh, and at least one of the signatories appears to have been dead for a couple of years, too.

 

[LDC]

'Left wing activist' Claire Fox standing for Brexit Party in European elections, according to BBC

Long interview with her on Novara Media. I posted in the commentariat thread but it probably got missed by most.

The Brexit Party: WTF? With Claire Fox and Aaron Bastani | Novara Media

 

[killer b]

Long interview with her on Novara Media. I posted in the commentariat thread but it probably got missed by most.

The Brexit Party: WTF? With Claire Fox and Aaron Bastani | Novara Media

Have you listened to it?

 

[LDC]

Have you listened to it?

Yeah, I was ready to hate her, but rather annoyingly I actually thought she came out of it much better than I expected. Novara put on a poor and incoherent show of questioning her, and I found them to be more annoying and politically dubious than her.

 

[killer b]

Yeah, shes really sharp. A great choice by Farage tbh

 

[killer b]

I think the novara lot mostly mean well, but they dont stand a chance against a operator like fox.

 

[LDC]

I think the novara lot mostly mean well, but they dont stand a chance against a operator like fox.

Against her I think they came across as naive London student lefties.

 

[eoin_k]

You just need to remind yourself who her and her genocide-denying, koch-brother funded, fag-industry hustling, climate-change denying, ex-trot cult cronies really are.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Against her I think they came across as naive London student lefties.

I think there's probably a good reason for that.

 

[LDC]

You just need to remind yourself who her and her genocide denying, koch-brother funded, fag-industry hustling, climate-change denying, ex-trot cult cronies really are.

She was quite careful to put distance between her and Spiked. She said after the RCP and then LM they went different ways.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yeah, shes really sharp. A great choice by Farage tbh

As someone who experienced her up close and personal over an extended period of time, I would beg to differ on her 'sharpness'. My experience was of a bullying, self-regarding haranguer who felt she was smarter than her actions would otherwise indicate. Literally enjoyed making children cry.

 

[tim]

She was quite careful to put distance between her and Spiked. She said after the RCP and then LM they went different ways.

Ones that clearly converged as they left the forest

 

[DaveCinzano]

The Canterbury cabal are running this Academics For Academic Freedom - Free speech, no ifs no buts but it does have a handy list Statement Signatories

founded by Dennis Hayes https://www.spiked online.com/author/dennis-hayes/

Hard core RCP all over the top of that this, including lesser known ones (e.g 9)

 

[Pickman's model]

The Canterbury cabal are running this Academics For Academic Freedom - Free speech, no ifs no buts but it does have a handy list Statement Signatories

founded by Dennis Hayes https://www.spiked online.com/author/dennis-hayes/

that's auld surely, being as the institute of education's been part of ucl for some years now

 

[eoin_k]

She was quite careful to put distance between her and Spiked. She said after the RCP and then LM they went different ways.

Sure, which is why it was irritating that the Novara boy's didn't press her on her own organisation's similar MO, working out of the same offices, taking money from the same sort of corporate sources, maintaining each others profile etc. If I was going head-to-head with her, I'd do my homework.

 

[Pickman's model]

and grayling left birkbeck years ago

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ones that clearly converged as they left FOREST

FTFY

 

[flypanam]

that's auld surely, being as the institute of education's been part of ucl for some years now

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Yeah, to be honest I only noticed AFAF because Hayes had an opinion peice in the Times Higher (two weeks ago) about his AFAF which stank so followed up a bit.

 

[killer b]

As someone who experienced her up close and personal over an extended period of time, I would beg to differ on her 'sharpness'. My experience was of a bullying, self-regarding haranguer who felt she was smarter than her actions would otherwise indicate. Literally enjoyed making children cry.

I'm sure this is true, but her recent media appearances I've seen have been impressive. Shes a very plausible politician. No one is able to lay a glove on her.

 

[eoin_k]

If nothing else, they deserve full marks for top trolling with the acronym.

 

[eoin_k]

that's auld surely...

That would explain the dead signatories.