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Powerful column by @NickCohen4 on the extreme rightwing culture warriors who began their political lives in the deeply weird far-left cult that Frank Furedi built among his students: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I've been documenting this cult's long march through the institutions since 1997. But I never guessed it would end up in Downing Street, working with a demagogic Tory Prime Minister:
monbiot.com/1997/12/18/the…
In 1998 I began to understand the trick it keeps pulling off: claiming to be on the left while taking extreme right positions. It sows total confusion among its opponents, and cons broadcasters into imagining they're giving the left a platform: monbiot.com/1998/11/01/far…
I watched, astonished, as, in 2003, the members of this cult moved en masse into science communications, and somehow managed to capture almost all the key positions. I still don't know how or why they did it: monbiot.com/2003/12/09/inv…
In 2011, I showed how they had become the leading voices of genocide and atrocity denial: monbiot.com/2011/06/13/nam…
Then, in 2018, I revealed that they had secretly been taking money from Charles Koch, the extreme right US billionaire: monbiot.com/2018/12/10/you…
Now, as Nick documents, one of the cult members is head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, and is directing Johnson's culture wars.
Please, don't anyone say that you weren't warned!
Here's the right link to Nick's column: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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