Daily Archives: 26/05/2026

Speech suppression more contagious than COVID – and certainly deadlier

Thames Valley Police have (through some legal device or other) cancelled an Oxford Union Debate, promoted by the Union’s female Muslim president, on whether Islam is compatible with Western civilization. She had invited Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox and Rev Calvin Robinson, and reportedly even Jacob Rees-Mogg, to speak. So far so Marxist Critical Theory – our captured institutions, including the police, follow Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School in espousing “repressive tolerance,” whereby tolerance is only applied to things progressive, and anything else is repressed mercilessly. The idea is that eliminating opposition will usher in the post-political socialist utopia, where all dwell together idly in sweet agreement. The inevitable result, … Continue reading

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