Blocked From Engaging?

Zarah Sultana is right that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn sold out by adopting the IHRA Definition, among several other examples, and I hope that she is looking forward to a very nice holiday or new car at the expense of Oliver Kamm, who has now repeatedly libelled her. Meanwhile, I am informed that, “@OliverKamm has blocked you. You can view public posts from @OliverKamm, but you are blocked from engaging with them. You also cannot follow or message @OliverKamm.” As if I might have had any desire to do so.

The only other tweeter to have done that to me is Edward Dutton, @jollyheretic. I knew him at university. He once tried to seduce me after Mass, so I know his little secret. Dutton is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Mankind Quarterly, which he used to edit. Another member is Dr Adel Batterjee of Jeddah, the founder of the Benevolence International Foundation, which was placed under UN sanctions because it was a front for funding al-Qaeda.

In 2018, Dutton secured the publication of this masterpiece in Evolutionary Psychological Science. On the Editorial Board of that is Professor Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard. In 2021, a very short time indeed from 2018 in the life of a quarterly journal, Pinker wrote that, “Oliver Kamm’s urbanity, erudition and compassion are raised to the power of two in Mending the Mind. He put them to work in crafting this gorgeous and urgent book, and on every page they remind us of his moral that enviable gifts are no protection against the affliction of depression.”

Kamm, Pinker, Dutton, Batterjee. Batterjee, Dutton, Pinker, Kamm. Truly, an Axis of Evil. Corbyn and Sultana may have their imperfections. But they are better than that.