Elite Universities ARE Hotbeds of Wokery
26 April 2023
by Noah Carl
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Tucker Carlson's sudden exit from Fox, Andrew Bridgen's defenestration by the Tories and Diane Abbott's anti-Semitic letter to the Observer.
Andrew Bridgen has been expelled from the Conservative Party after raising concerns about Covid vaccine harms. You don't have to agree with everything he says to regard this as deeply regrettable.
A recent Guardian article claims that elite universities are “highly conservative institutions”. In fact, they're institutionally woke. A recent poll at Harvard found that only 1.5% of faculty identify as conservative.
The NHS Covid app was a typical government IT project – it cost the taxpayer billions and didn't work properly. The evidence it saved any lives is threadbare, but it did catastrophic damage to the British economy.
In his new book, Matthew Goodwin shows he understands, in a way few academics do, that 'populism' is political opposition to a rapid decline in living standards.
As the realities of Net Zero – sky-high energy prices, the end of flying and red meat – hit home for the general public, the backlash is building and the tide is turning.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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