McCarthyism Is Back In Chilling Crackdown On Free Speech At UK Universities

The government has promised a “crackdown” on university lecturers for allegedly spreading pro-Putin propaganda on social media.

Yesterday, Robert Halfon, the chair of the Education Select Committee, said that an investigation conducted by a UK radio station had exposed pro-Putin propaganda at UK universities.

According to The Telegraph:

Several academics have been acting as “useful idiots” for Russia’s atrocities, a senior Tory MP warned on Monday.

In education questions, Robert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told the Commons that an investigation by LBC had exposed “pro-Putinist propaganda at some of our leading universities”.

He added that Ray Bush, professor emeritus of African studies and development politics at the University of Leeds, had made reference to the United States having “chemical warfare installations in Ukraine – that’s a lie, as he knows, being spread by the Kremlin”.

At Edinburgh University, Professor Tim Hayward retweeted a Russian representative to the United Nations describing the attack on Mariupol’s maternity hospital as “fake news”, he said, while at Leicester University another academic had described “ludicrous disinformation on both sides” and “boasted about appearing on Russia Today”.

Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, promised to launch a crackdown on academics who promote pro-Putin propaganda.

He said that the university minister was “already on the case” and was in contact with the relevant institutions.

“Putin and his cronies are a malign influence on anyone in this country buying their false narrative, and I have to repeat it is a false and dangerous narrative, and we will crack down on it hard,” Mr Zahawi added.

Prof Hayward said he was tweeting in a personal capacity and that he did not “retweet but quote-tweeted”.

Hayward went on to explain that he wasn’t endorsing the allegation by re-tweeting it and that he often re-tweeted those he disagreed with.

LBC radio is actively working with the UK government to target academics who dare to challenge the media’s relentless anti-Russian propaganda.

If that isn’t McCarthyism, then what is?

How dare any politician threaten lecturers for expressing an opinion on the news of the day?

I’ve had a good look and I can tell you that not a single newspaper in the UK has condemned the comments of Nadhim Zahawi, a fascist if ever there was one.

And as for LBC? I’ve previously accused its flagship show presenter James O’Brien as being a latter day Lord Haw Haw. I was being kind. He is absolutely wretched.

What a shithouse that station is. Rather than invite the lecturers with the wrong opinions on-air for a debate, LBC instead colludes in a witch-hunt against them. Journalism?

No. Fascism.

 

 

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