"As a defender of free speech" This man is no defender of free speech. In fact, he lobbied to get himself a position to dictate what was allowed speech in UK u

"As a defender of free speech" This man is no defender of free speech. In fact, he lobbied to get himself a position to dictate what was allowed speech in UK universities. He has continually dressed up his own bigotry in psuedo-intellectual terms. Essentially, Toby is just a straight up controversy merchant, and I think it's important to understand that. this isn't about "the culture war" - Toby, and the Spectator have a long history of just staking out far right positions in order to draw controversy. You may think "Well. what's wrong with this, it stimulates debate" - that might be an interesting philosophical point, but in practice, what ends up happening is that The Specatator and its lackeys like Young continually just push mindless nonsense in the name of "stimulating debate"- at what point do you draw the line and say "Actually, this guy is just continually spouting inconsistent nonsense". There's all sorts that just don't make sense in this article- the biochemist is "eminently" qualified to weigh in on education policy. I'm sure he studied public policy and civics in his spare time. Or > Knowing about Rangi and Papa won’t get you into medical school. Well sure, and knowing about advanced calculus won't get you into med school either, but that's not really the point is it. I think in general I just want to highlight that this whole opinion peice - does a piss poor job of reporting the facts. I would suggest to you that you shouldn't be listening to a guy who peppers his reporting of details with insults for his subjects (let alonea a guy who publicly acknoledges even his own friends can't stand him, that's bye-the-bye). I think the question really is - why is Toby Young in any way interested in what happens literally on the opposite side of the world. The answer is he's not, he needs to fill column inches with controversy and this is his taste of the week. I look forward to his fake accounts named after characters in his books attacking me (yes, that actually does happen).