Reminder that "free speech" champion Niall Ferguson, as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, commissioned "opposition research" on an undergraduate whose politics he didn't like...😉 archive.ph/gJwoL - ThreadSky

jdportes.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Reminder that "free speech" champion Niall Ferguson, as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, commissioned "opposition research" on an undergraduate whose politics he didn't like...😉

https://archive.ph/gJwoL

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cupking11.bsky.social•1 day ago

What's impacting on universities is the legislation that the tories put in that actively puts off overseas students from attending UK institutions.

matthinton.bsky.social•1 day ago

Plus the massive cuts to research funding, both from the EU and within the UK.

tendaibsky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well bad news for him is we are going NOWHERE and will be here long after his orange master has left.

inthespotlight755.bsky.social•1 day ago

mcdaragh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also deliberately messed with statistics to make claims about Obama's economic record that were flatly wrong. He's the ultimate hackademic

eleanorporter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Doesn’t mention Katherine Franke or Maura Finkelstein and others of course. It must be knowing hypocrisy surely

damemyniah.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have thrown exactly two books in the garbage after reading them & one of them was Niall Ferguson’s.

cliosboardgames.bsky.social•1 day ago

Now I'm curious which one of his (and which one is the other one)!
I abandoned Ferguson's Civilization after around 80 pages because his statements about topics I knew well where as sweeping as they were wrong, and I had no reason to assume he would treat topics I didn't know well any different.

damemyniah.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was Civilization: The West and the Rest. (My list of books I threw out after reading would be three if the third hadn’t been a library book!)

damemyniah.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was the part where he explained that slavery in Brazil, while wrong of course, was pretty good compared to slavery in America that set my teeth on edge

cliosboardgames.bsky.social•1 day ago

(It was a library book, so throwing it out was no option.)

snig.bsky.social•2 days ago

"(UK bureaucrats prefer EDI. I prefer DIE, because that is what the institutions that go down this path will ultimately do.)" Bloody hell.

tarquinhh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not the main issue, but are journos unable to use a building other than the Radcliffe as a synecdoche for academia?

matthinton.bsky.social•1 day ago

Despite working in academia for over 30 years though, my first thought is always Inspector Morse.

mattythurst.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve worked in academia for 15 years now and all these pieces are a 100% wrong. The only issue about hiring is that it’s often straight middle or upper class men who know nothing beyond a strand of academia

alanjstedman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Absolutely zero time for Ferguson

Unconscious bias permeates his writing. Those Sunday Times columns post Brexit were just full of unsustainable tripe

piccel.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s not unconscious, he’s always been a fascist. Needs removed.

james-reckons.bsky.social•2 days ago

Honestly societally bizarre you’re allowed to appear in public after praising a known sex attacker, why should I care what this moral void has to say

trishap.bsky.social•2 days ago

He owns a beautiful C16 house near us, didn’t realise he was such a creep

piccel.bsky.social•2 days ago

He may be a creep, he’s also a fascist. He needs dealt with.

jonathanhopkin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nothing to do with freezing tuition fees and restricting visas then

davidhardstaff.co.uk•2 days ago

I do wish these people would just shut up and stop whining - it's so tedious!

pamnashes.bsky.social•1 day ago

‘a collision they have brought upon themselves by years of overt left-wing political activism.’
So he’s only advocating free speech for those who agree with his narrative?

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