"Honestly, this thing makes me despair for the future of humanity." That's because you haven't read the article. This is from The Spectator, which is known as

"Honestly, this thing makes me despair for the future of humanity." That's because you haven't read the article. This is from The Spectator, which is known as a rather swivel-eyed-right-wing magazine at the best of times in the UK. What this is actually about is a student union not wanting to give a platform to a guy who went to fight with the Kurds against IS. Whether you agree with his actions or not, the reality is that people doing this are in a legal grey area (in the UK at least), and I can't really fault a university (or at least its student union) wanting to encourage members of its student body to go and get killed in a conflict they quite possibly don't fully understand. They might feel a teensy bit responsible if they did. Dumbest Spectator article in a while, which is saying a lot.