Anyone who works in a large institution in Britain today will know how easy it is for a small band of determined ideologues to capture and shape it in their own image. And this problem is especially acute in universities.
In December last year, a number of us challenged this at the University of Cambridge by voting overwhelmingly to block a policy that would have empowered the most easily offended members of the university to police the academic judgments of colleagues and ban visiting researchers of whom they disapproved.
That decision, together with our vice-chancellor’s commendably clear interpretation of its meaning, is what made it possible to invite Jordan Peterson back to Cambridge last week after the scandalous rescission of his appointment to a
