The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance

Matt Goodwin is a former professor of politics at the University of Kent who took voluntary severance last year, following a series of controversial posts after the Stockport stabbings. He has said that his departure had nothing to do with his views on the unrest, but was instead prompted by his disillusionment with developments in academic and university life.

In Bad Education he lays out his antipathy towards modern trends in British universities, which he argues have been captured by “woke” ideas of social justice, and undermined by a consumer-driven coddling of students.