Thank God for Rod. Durham Uni students stage walkout over Liddle’s free speech views. They don’t want free speech.

One of the few reasons to buy the quite dreadful Sun these days is to read the views of columnist Rod Liddle.

The great strength of Liddle is that he is not soaking up the Lefty views which pervade the rest of the paper and has led to the collapse of its sales, revenue and jobs.

When you ask Liddle to speak don’t expect wokery. 

And, I am pleased to report that the anti-free speech idiots at Durham University didn’t like it when he actually said what he was thinking at a formal dinner held by South College.

Liddle, who also writes a column for the Spectator, started by joking that he was disappointed not to see any sex workers in the audience, a reference to the controversary over safety training supplied by the university to their students working in the sex industry.

He said colonialism was not the main cause of Africa’s problems and that the underachievement of black pupils had nothing to do with institutional or structural racism.

All good free speech stuff. Rent-an-Idiot swung into action with the Durham’s Working Class Students’ Association (I kid you not. So Seventies) swinging into action demanding an investigation into transphobia and racism.

A dozen students walked out before his after-dinner speech and few left during it. While protocol is to rise as the High Table gets up to leave, all students in the hall remained seated.

I do feel congratulations are in order for Professor Tim Luckhurst who had invited Liddle as he knew him from their BBC days. He shouted ‘’pathetic’’ as the students walked out.

In an email to a student who complained he said; ‘’ My guest’s topic was tolerance.

‘’He spoke about the importance of listening to alternative perspectives, He attacked nobody.
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‘’We have no right not to be offended but offence doesn’t harm us and freedom of speech means nothing unless it encompasses the right to say things with which others disagree profoundly.’’

We need more Rods and less 1970 throw backs like the Durham Working Class Students’ Association.

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