The irony
The Daily Mail reports:
Prof Rainsborough’s dispute with King’s College began in late 2018 when he organised ‘Endangered Speeches’, a speakers’ series on the growth of over cancel culture.
He said he was ‘hauled over the coals’ by the dean of his faculty after some students tried to get the first talk banned.
If not so sad, it would be funny. He organises a series about cancel culture and they try to get the series cancelled!
Weeks later, in February 2019, he published an article on a website dedicated to the ongoing Brexit debate.
The piece – ‘The British road to dirty war’ – did not take an explicit position on Brexit as it had already happened, he said.
He explained: ‘It was simply said that if political elites generally start trying to ignore the democratically expressed will of the populace, then over time that’s going to lead to problems and civil unrest.’
But the article upset colleagues who complained to the university authorities.
At a meeting with the dean, he was told ‘people were unhappy’ and that he must step down from his post.
The evil of the man. He wrote that the political elite should respect the results of a democratic referendum. No wonder the elite shunned him.