Richard Miles

[Richard Miles @RRJJMM57]

@prossertj Self-styled ‘progressivism’ in education has been a disaster: pseudosciences like sociology; ‘critical race theory’; cancellation of anyone the left disagrees with; proliferation of bullshit & absence of open-mindedness & critical thinking; worship of ‘DEI’. Bring on conservatism

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@HannaKienzler The Palestinian flag is a warning that your ‘thoughts’ might be about to give academia a bad name. You don’t disappoint: you imply that it is illegitimate for an academic to argue against DEI & ‘critical race theory’. Surely the whole point of academia is to question theories?

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@prossertj If the allegations are true, he’s a chancer who mostly deserves admiration for getting away with it for so long, & maybe some pity for his deluded mental state. The real villains are those who indulged his preposterous fantasies for their own ideological & virtue-signalling ends.

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@bphillipsonMP @JohnCleese I’m no advocate of Farage, but I’d pipe down about sleaze if I were you.

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@prossertj The real villain is (I’m sorry to say, as an increasingly embarrassed alumnus) Cambridge University, who indulged him & his obvious pseudo-intellectual bullshit for the sake of ‘DEI’. Not the only university to have succumbed to this nonsense, but sad to see the decline.

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@bphillipsonMP @paulmasonnews I think you’re on weak ground complaining about dodgy by-elections. Also incidentally about ‘grubby pacts’, ‘cover-ups’ & ‘convicted fraudsters’. I’d sit down if I were you.

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@sbaroncohen What’s truly horrifying is that one of the UK’s most respected academic institutions has a department in which someone like him could be appointed a Professor, & be rewarded & praised for churning out rubbish like this - even if it’s his own work (which it seems it isn’t).

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@aljhlester @thetimes The most horrific revelation is that the University of Cambridge has a Sociology Department at all. Plenty of lesser institutions specialise in churning out this incomprehensible, unverifiable, anti-intellectual bullshit: Cambridge should focus on properly academic subjects.

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@MattChorley @bbc5live Why did she get severance pay in the first place? You get SP if you’re sacked without cause; NOT if you voluntarily resign, & NOT if you’re dismissed for good cause.

(Sorry, just realised, this is the public sector…different rules apply when you’re spending public money)

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@jodymcintyre_ Good. Israel is our ally, Iran & ‘Palestine’ are not.

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@murrayf00te However dodgy the process by which he got there, he’s the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He’s perfectly entitled to ignore the obsession of 3.5% of the UK’s population. no matter how vociferously they may protest.

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@GoodwinMJ Because people on the Left are decent, well-intentioned & on the right side of history, even if their deeply-held convictions sometimes - quite understandably - call for extreme action. (This also explains why it’s more respectable to be a Stalinist or Maoist than a fascist)

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@ScotNational Why should an incoming PM of the UK be expected to prioritise the obsessions of. 3-4% (maximum) of the UK’s population over other, more pressing issues? Especially when they lost a ‘once in a generation’ referendum on the issue they are obsessing about.

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@AllisonPearson I thought it was actually Rachel from Customer Complaints, once her CV had been fact-checked.

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@ClaudiaWebbe Yes - disappointing isn’t it. No commitment to our ally Israel, no reversal of our recognition of the fictional ‘state of Palestine’, no crackdown on Islamic hate marches.

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@doctor_rahmeh Even Labour politicians are right sometimes..

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@AaronBastani What is the word for someone who talks nonsense, but isn’t plausible enough to be described as a charlatan?

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@ZackPolanski ‘here’s what xxx doesn’t want you to know’ is a classic prelude to a scam.

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@connor_naismith @andyburnham Is the Labour Party going to pay the costs of the unnecessary by-election that you engineered to get Burnham elected (as Reform has offered to do in Clacton)? Or is the taxpayer expected to foot the bill for Labour’s machinations?

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@PaddyKeenan0121 @larabirdsnp Israel is not committing a genocide