Posted at 11am UK time
Oxford is back in the news again, this time after 150 lecturers have refused to teach at Oriel College after the latter decided not to remove the controversial Cecil Rhodes statue.
The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 9, 2021
'150 Oxford dons refuse to teach in Rhodes row'#TomorrowsPapersToday
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I do not see the problem here. Just kick them out. If they have this sort of worldview and attitude, it's likely that they would be doing more indoctrinating than teaching anyway.
A D M Collingwood is the writer and Editor of BritanniQ, a free, weekly newsletter by Bournbrook Magazine which curates essays, polemics, podcasts, books, biographies and quietly patriotic beauty, and sends the best directly to the inboxes of intelligent Britons.
