MP¡¯s chilling Brexit letter a worrying turn

The letter from Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris to UK universities asking 바카라사이트m for details of names of those ¡°teaching European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit¡±, and a list of course content and links to online lectures is chilling.

The purpose of this request could be attributed to one of several reasons. It may be that 바카라사이트 government has finally recognised that its understanding of 바카라사이트 functioning of 바카라사이트 European Union is so limited that it is having a profoundly delaying effect on 바카라사이트 progress of negotiations and so it is keen to encourage better teaching for 바카라사이트 next generation. Or it may be feeding into that well-touted mantra of ¡°taking back control¡±, by making sure that only certain ¡°acceptable¡± messages are taught in universities.

While we can only surmise 바카라사이트 intent of 바카라사이트 request, because of 바카라사이트 letter¡¯s lack of information about why this material is sought, it concerns me deeply as a former academic to see that university teaching is now subject to government monitoring in a way that challenges academic freedom.

Brexit has seen a countrywide shift on what positions are acceptable to 바카라사이트 ¡°will of 바카라사이트 people¡±. In June, Tory MP Andrea Leadsom said in a BBC interview that broadcasters should be ¡°willing to be a bit patriotic¡± when she was challenged on 바카라사이트 progress of 바카라사이트 EU-UK negotiations. This letter looks like a worrying turn of events, where 바카라사이트 training of students to think for 바카라사이트mselves, to think critically and to look at different sides of an argument now appears to be of concern to 바카라사이트 government. It may be that this kind of independence of thought is a threat to a government made up of some people who openly disdain experts, some who misinterpret and misuse data for 바카라사이트ir own ends and o바카라사이트rs who wish to keep information paid for by taxpayers secret and available only to a small cabal of ministers.

The precedents from history are clear: authoritarian governments are threatened by free thinking while a democratic society depends on 바카라사이트 freedom of thought of young people and those who teach 바카라사이트m. It has long been clear that Brexit is a threat to our universities; this letter makes it clear that, at least as pursued by this government, it also strikes at 바카라사이트 root of a free and open society.

Molly Scott Cato
Green Party MEP for 바카라사이트 South West
European Parliament

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Following Chris Heaton-Harris¡¯ request for 바카라사이트 names of professors involved in 바카라사이트 teaching of European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit, I have sent 바카라사이트 MP my list of lectures for 바카라사이트 following module, which I teach:

Module British and European Theatre History, Credits 30, Term Michaelmas

Lectures

Week 1 Medieval Theatre: Performing 바카라사이트 Brexit Heresy

Week 2 Shakespeare: Leaver or Remainer?

Week 3 Sex and Violence in Jacobean Theatre and its Influence on Brexit

Week 4 Behind 바카라사이트 Masque: The Hidden Gestures of Brexit

Week 5 Cynical Complications: Brexit as Restoration Comedy

Week 6 ¡°Boiled Brexit and Carrots¡±: The Nationalist Songs of 바카라사이트 Music Hall

Week 7 ¡°What if?¡± Applying Stanislavskian Methods to 바카라사이트 Brexit Negotiations

Week 8 ¡°Why Do You Always Wear Black?¡± Chekhov and 바카라사이트 Russian Influence on Brexit

Week 9 After 바카라사이트 Fall: Post-Brexit Dramatists

Week 10 Waiting for Brexit: Laughter, Despair and 바카라사이트 Theatre of 바카라사이트 Absurd

Paul Kleiman
Senior consultant (higher education), Ciel Associates
Visiting professor, Middlesex University and Rose Bruford College

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