Self-fulfilling
Steve blogs about the Department for Education asking universities to pass on information about extremist students to Special Branch. Steve notes that this won’t work because most lecturers don’t bother to learn students’ names. I think it’ll work for the extremists – what better way to make people feel like outsiders than by saying they’re being monitored, informed-upon? I don’t recall the government asking this for Irish students in the 70’s and 80’s, nor for left-wing students in the 60’s. Maybe the government should just go the last step and rename the Home Office the “Ministry of Love“.
1 comment October 17th, 2006