Queer Cambridge
A review of Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History (Cambridge University Press, 2025) by Simon Goldhill.
Richard Eldred recently noticed, for our benefit, that the Mail had found evidence that our universities are becoming even more transily, intersexily and non-binararily progressive. There seems to be no end, yet, to how queer England is willing to become. So let me appeal to the great past, and look at a book that just came out, about an old, respectable, surely sensible, university – Cambridge.
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“Well, it seems obvious to me that all of this was transitional. I think the woke warriors can sense total victory”
Woke is a joke and the queer – tranny fascists have lost.
If Cambridge or any uni is this absurd it will fail. As simple as that.
These gender fascists have their billions, they have the media, they have the gestapo called the government, they have the paper mills, they have AI – but they don’t have reality, morality, or common sense.
They can impose their fascism all they want. As with every fascism or totalitarianism ever tried, it will fail.
Guaranteed. Goose stepping mentally ill perverts and freaks.
Indeed. And remember, only a few years before the Soviet Union collapsed, nobody would have believed that its days were numbered.
Flashback over half a century to late September 1972 – walking down King’s Parade for the first time as an undergraduate, and the TV cameras outside King’s filming admission of King’s first women students (and jointly with Clare College, a first as a mixed college). Great scientific education, oddball student environment, then still 90% male. And I’d turned down that mixed redbrick for this. All changed utterly (for better or for worse) over the next decade of Cambridge Colleges going mixed en masse. Homosexuality between consenting adult males legalised in 1967. Getting the impression before that “homosexual” a mainly medical term, brought out of the shadows as part of the legislative process. As 1960s teenagers, we referred to queers (and few other epithets currently deemed hate speech) – label went out of fashion for a few decades, to be appropriated by gay, but now back in fashion again. Ditto, “heterosexual” not much used colloquially before 1967 – default position all assumed to fancy the usual opposite sex. Majority still do. As my old dad once upon a time said, fundamental in all of us. Queers, gays and other epithets got their way in 1967. Fair enough. What’s all the Gay-Pride… Read more »
Off – T “we will protest in ant form it takes” Well the farmers are also protesting and it is against the green zealotry that you are pushing, just admit it Packham, you are a hard Leftist who doesn’t seem to give a toss about the destruction of birds from the choppers & fryers
:Climate breakdown could become next Me Too-style movement, Chris Packham says
Another self-appointed Special One. You can wear a hair shirt (except you don’t), but don’t expect the rest of us to join in.
Best sent down a coal mine, or out on an oil rig, to do a proper job.
A ghastly idea. He’d probably collapse the whole fossil fuel extraction industry single-handedly by accidental behaviour change. Better let him do something harmless like counting the hairs of a caterpillar in a padded cell somewhere.
This really deserves to be quoted in full:
Climate and biodiversity breakdown could become the next Me Too or Black Lives Matter campaign, Chris Packham has said
And considering the extreme urgency of the situation – there are always tipping points¹ –
people like him will be fighting, and that includes protest in whatever form that takes,
which supposedly means that even he might eventually stop talking nonsense to media outlets and (gasp) Go out onto the street and shout something!!
Oh my.
¹ If there were always tipping points, it obviously follows that we must already have passed countless numbers of them, just without anything tipping, “We passed the 134,217,728th point of no return 45 seconds ago and catastrophically, this one will never occur again and the next one is just round the corner!”-style. In other words, Packham is a firkin’ idiot who doesn’t even understand the terms he’s throwing around. The climate breakdown magpie, so to say, always looking out for glittering new scare terms he then drops randomly into his rambling speeches.
“Black Lives Matter”. What a prat! American bollocks.
At least two members of the Cambridge Five spy ring were gay: Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess. Donald Maclean, the third known member, was believed to be bisexual.
Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
The Cambridge Five
Generative AI is experimental.
So the ban was more to do with the Cold War, rather that just old school disgust of homosexuality? interesting.
Yeah presumably anything that left people open to blackmail was a risk.
“Bulmer of Bulmer’s cider”……I have actually driven past the Bulmer’s house, it is in small village between Hereford & Kington, not far from the River Why. I used to go clubbing in Hereford, great part of the country.
The future belongs to those who procreate. As simple as that.
This article reminds my of a novel called Alexander’s Choice. (not James) That was based on Eton College in the 1980s if I recall. About a teacher that has a pederastic relationship with one of the boys there. It started when a Dog sh*t on his homework, and the teacher not believing him and reducing him to tears, but later becoming more that friends, shall we say. I took it to one of those phone box, repurposed libraries. Someone will get hot under the collar, whether in a good way is ambiguous LOL!
The mainstream just don’t like wokusts’ obsessions with the contents of their or our knickers. It’s loathsome. Wokusts can attempt to laughably intellectualise their fixations all they want but most people reject it, for the ego-fuelled, reductive fetishism it is. Progressives just cannot move beyond the contents of their pants. Really creepy. Keep it away from the kids. They don’t want it either. I get that there are a lot of gays around and we can be tolerant and accept that but that is different to us being ideologically subjugated and forced to accept any and all deranged sexual practices/behaviours in the public square. Haven’t they got anything more interesting and enlightened to talk about at our universities? About time we put our vice-chancellors under the spotlight – and what they are involved with.
Amen.
With a qualification, however: As I’ve recently learned by reading a Wikipedia article about male prostitution (and literally known for decades due to recurring bad experiences), there’s a whole gay tribe subscribed to toilet fetishism, the more extreme members of which even claim that they cannot have sexual satisfaction except when copulating in the men’s toilet and I categorically (although likely without much practical effect) demand single-sex toilets for heterosexual men, ie, lavatories which can be used for their nominal purpose without having to deal with people prowling them on the lookout for sexual encounters with like-minded individuals who don’t mind employing a little ‘persuasion’ (sarcasm) when it might help them to achieve their objective.
I remember a motorway service station seeing that guy drying his hands, looking serious. He was still there drying his hands after I came out of the toilet. I thought to myself, there is some sort of undercover security going on here and left.
Bit off-topic, but am somehow reminded of the redbrick university Vice Chancellor and Dame of the Realm, on whose watch security fencing was erected around a hall of residence, to keep the students in and the deadly virus out (or maybe it was the other way round).
Theatre of the Absurd and Micro-Managerial Leadership at its finest. Same Dame and Vice Chancellor who was remunerated £200K pa for moonlighting monthly as non-exec director for one of the country’s top-ten FTSE100 valued companies.
From the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous.
At least the students managed to push the fence over. Was hoping for more puissance from them, but that was asking too much.