Have people seen piece by @NafeezAhmed in @BylineTimes which tracks the funding of rightwing so-called 'free speech' networks at Cambridge & elsewhere by Trump-supporting Republican billionaires? You should. It's terrifying, & explains a great deal. We knew along this was funded
I am still digesting it, will post more on Monday. All I can say is that it is grim, very grim. Palantir is all over the government; do we really need it and Peter Thiel running universities?
Cosy little networks close to government with many of your favourite retrogrades and usual suspects in it--the Tobies, the Nigels, the caliper-stroking. It should be Netflixed.
BTW, some of us have been aware of this network for a while as well as of the role of some of its members in attacks on us as individuals. Now it is clearly an issue of wider concern for universities, Cambridge specifically. It will not do to turn a blind eye.
If you are an education journalist, editor or magazine, this is essential reading, I'm afraid, grim but essential.
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