Shutting down the Debate

Ms Gopal, a Cambridge academic was due to speak to Home Office officials about the impact of colonial history on department policy. Sounds like a reasonable venture, you’d think, but it’s been cancelled. The rightwing blogger Guido Fawkes has dug up a tweet from February, in which the academic criticised Priti Patel, and he’s claiming the credit for the fact that her invitation has now been cancelled. Another win for nasty stirring, and surely a loss for the Home Office. Do their sources of information all have to support Priti Patel? There’s enough evidence of Home Office failure you for to think they’d be glad of as much help as possible, but with prejudice and cowardice in charge it’s very hard to see how anything’s going to improve.