Eh whatever. Would a private company invite someone to give a talk if that person was constantly making personal attacks on the CEO, the employees and the produ

Eh whatever. Would a private company invite someone to give a talk if that person was constantly making personal attacks on the CEO, the employees and the products? Probably not. The background to this dispute is that the British civil service, which is meant to be politically neutral, developed a bad habit of inviting people who hate the government to give talk to the civil service at which point those people predictably gave talks about how crap the government is i.e. the people supposed to execute the government's will were asking for advice and guidance from people who explicitly wish to undermine that same government. This was a thing a year or two ago I think and clearly checking into who they are inviting was a part of the fix. The wider context is the ongoing culture war in which the civil service now more or less refuses to accept direct orders from ministers and is running things in the way they prefer; along with (some) minister's increasingly desperate attempts to regain control over them. It may be cosmetic but stopping the civil service from inviting a constant stream of professional activists to shit on their bosses is an understandable step if a rather ineffective one. All the squeaking about "no platforming" is just noise from the left wing activists who now find it harder to influence and coordinate with the civil service. They are of course free to go give talks at the many forums that will happily welcome them whilst systematically rejecting their opponents.