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Powerful column by @NickCohen4 on the extreme rightwing culture warriors who began their political lives in the deeply weird far-left cult that Frank Furedi built among his students: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the-far-left-origins-of-no-10s-desperate-attack-on-all-things-woke">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
I& #39;ve been documenting this cult& #39;s long march through the institutions since 1997. But I never guessed it would end up in Downing Street, working with a demagogic Tory Prime Minister: https://www.monbiot.com/1997/12/18/the-revolution-has-been-televised/">https://www.monbiot.com/1997/12/1...
In 1998 I began to understand the trick it keeps pulling off: claiming to be on the left while taking extreme right positions. It sows total confusion among its opponents, and cons broadcasters into imagining they& #39;re giving the left a platform: https://www.monbiot.com/1998/11/01/far-left-or-far-right/">https://www.monbiot.com/1998/11/0...
I watched, astonished, as, in 2003, the members of this cult moved en masse into science communications, and somehow managed to capture almost all the key positions. I still don& #39;t know how or why they did it: https://www.monbiot.com/2003/12/09/invasion-of-the-entryists/">https://www.monbiot.com/2003/12/0...
In 2011, I showed how they had become the leading voices of genocide and atrocity denial: https://www.monbiot.com/2011/06/13/naming-the-genocide-deniers/">https://www.monbiot.com/2011/06/1...
Then, in 2018, I revealed that they had secretly been taking money from Charles Koch, the extreme right US billionaire: https://www.monbiot.com/2018/12/10/you-want-it-darker/">https://www.monbiot.com/2018/12/1...
Now, as Nick documents, one of the cult members is head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, and is directing Johnson& #39;s culture wars.
Please, don& #39;t anyone say that you weren& #39;t warned!
Please, don& #39;t anyone say that you weren& #39;t warned!
Here& #39;s the right link to Nick& #39;s column: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the-far-left-origins-of-no-10s-desperate-attack-on-all-things-woke-">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
