Knowledge Is Power

Of course there is bother at SOAS over the IHRA Definition. No institution in the world is more enmeshed in the liberation struggle of the Global South. The IHRA Definition requires absolute fealty to the exact opposite of that struggle.

But if this year's census went ahead, then it would confirm what everyone already knew, that every ward east of the Irish Sea now contained at least some people whose political roots were at least partly in that struggle. London, always the world in one city, has long been its capital, and that has now fanned out across the entire country.

As for the IHRA Definition's imposition on universities, of all institutions, by Gavin Williamson, of all people, that may be the point at which satire finally became impossible.