The heart of their agendas is to dismantle democracy. There’s no moulding that.

Trumpism is fundamentally opposed to everything academia is about - critical thinking, reasoned debate, advancement and sharing of knowledge. Universities can’t reach accommodation with Trumpism without sacrificing everything that makes them universities. The only option is to push back.

Trumpism is fundamentally opposed to everything academia is about - critical thinking, reasoned debate, advancement and sharing of knowledge. Universities can’t reach accommodation with Trumpism without sacrificing everything that makes them universities. The only option is to push back.

Exactly. All this focus on how unpleasant he was back then completely overlooks how unpleasant he is now.

Except they don’t. Trump’s making the country poorer for sure but his whole agenda is making him personally a lot, lot richer. If only it all was rebounding on him personally

Yes. What’s the point of supporting Ukraine on the battlefield if we allow Putin to weaken the UK and Europe through undermining democracy? And on that note we also need to stand up to Trump and Musk trying to do the same thing.

Word count didn’t give room for a full description of what I think of them.

And yes I have been looking at the “Independent” again this week …..