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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Anthony

Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture

Staff and students at a rally in support of Palestine outside the Soas University of London, November 2024
Staff and students at a rally in support of Palestine outside the Soas University of London, November 2024. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

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 Southport 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.

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