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Toby Young Bre Eds Contempt TOBY YOUNG BRE EDS CONTEMPT. AFTER Thby Young's controversial AFTER Boris Johnson appointment to the board Of the Office fe"' Young walk "an Weld man for the for Students, comments he had (al leasi, he was when Lye )t, made on Radio 4 about "progressive press), reciprocating the sopporl ha eugenics" were shared far and wide. d offered in his ,rrC:u eolooms wio.LO But his interest in the area has made .11111111S0111 was London mayor, Mat h:,,.1 him some friends. Cove endorsed dial verdict rionit,• Last year Young was invited by right too"). No surprise, as t;ove and leased just before Christmas psychologist James Thompson to attend Young have a long and fond history. he shady Legatum Institute a secretive conference at UCL called the Fri on 2010 until Gove was irif ,v(.(1 intinues to wheedle its way London Conference on Intelligence (1_ CI). reshuffle in 2014, Young regularly (k "Attendees were only told the venue at the last (;five in his columns, hailing him as "thy radical education secretary since :hall meetings reveal that minute... and asked not to share the the <m,t light and arch hard- information," Young recalled. What he kept 1() World War". r Singham was welcomed himself was why the conference he attended Then. in June 2016, alter David ( resignation, Young talked up (iove's tr;(1,..ro )ffice to meet Britain's top was so secretive. feremy Heywood, on the Although a request for the invitation-only as successor to the prime minister in thr. :;11V1 .y:rri ay's Florence speech. conference's 2017 programme was declined. "Some have greatness thrust upont 1- - fly.: r( is followed another LCI 2015 included papers arguing that racial Gove is looking increasingly as if hire hc:f,f ,rnirw had with an unnamed differences in penis length predict different would fit. You can get 5/1 odds on put down Ur, • t, :wive last February. A levels of parental care, that racial "admixture" the next PM. I've already ptember meeting, Singham e month later, Gove dropped out ()1 has a negative effect on population quality, that gaminv ;s on BBC Newsnight's "skin brightness" is a factor in global Conservative leadership race after vote in the first round. ient to argue for development, and that country-level differences 14 percent of the tariffs and getting out of in the number of Nobel Prizes can be explained Office tfo- and single market from JOINING the board of the by racial differences in male hormone levels. Students isn't Toby Young's first taxps-r- One paper presented at the 2016 conference he Want mandarin in the funded job. In October 2016 argued that "low IQ, high fertility Southern artment for Exiting the EU director of the New Schools Network non-Western immigration... threatens the anti 1ft: ecretary (now No I at the a charity that promotes acadenliec. sustainability of European democracy, welfare on go-,,, frn F1-“:ro Rycroft, received the schools and relies heavily and civilisation". Another argued that children s wisdom twice last funding. from working-class households tend to have ngs in July and August. The NSN's latest accounts. filf:d H( "aggressive, antisocial" personalities, and that it 1;r riber, Singham had met show it received £2,126.512 the welfare state promotes this by letting )cis Johnson to chew over Department for Education — 86 puccrit working-class households have children. Three . A few months later, the income. The previous year governmeni, papers, all by men, were presented on the topic ;Ipfully telling the EU it made up 89 percent of its income. i he of women being innately less intelligent. its Brexit bill. pays £90,000-E I 00,000 to Young, who \vii! The conference serves as a rendezvous for big Whitehall Brexit bases, now receive £9,180 a year in his new post. academic racists and their sympathisers. One ham was having a "coffee playing "a key role in shaping, Office for speaker, Emil Kirkegaard, whom Young national trade secretary Students' strategic direction". follows on Twitter, presented papers at the adviser, Amy Tinley. Young claims to be a "free market" 2015, 2016 and 2017 conferences. Writing harity with a mission to enthusiast, but his high-profile positions are about paedophilia on his website, he argued in for the benefit of all by state-funded and crony-looking. The Eye asked 2012 that "a compromise is having sex with a ;sing policies which him if the NSN — government-funded and sleeping child without them knowing it (so, sways from poverty to running government policy — was more like a using sleeping medicine). If they. dont [sic] Eye), this looks like an quango than a charity. He said the "NSN is a notice it is difficult to see how they cud [sic] be )rward lobbying. charity, not a quango. I was appointed by the harmed." He added in April 2017 that he trustees of the charity, not the government. If advocated a "frank discussion of pedophilia- 1 criticism of the you look at NSN's income going back to 2009 related issues". when it was set up, less than half of it has come ion — almost certainly Another speaker in 2015 and 2016 was from the Department for Education." - to withhold more than Richard Lynn, described by the US non-profit rnment files relating to organisation, Southern Poverty Law Center, as THE aim of the Office of Students is "to policy in the early a white nationalist and extremist. He has Ised ensure that every student enjoys a rewarding over new year by previously called for "incompetent cultures" to educational experience and secures the be "phased out" and argues that black people s whether the secrecy outcomes that they want, whatever their have naturally "psychopathic" personalities. background and whatever their aspirations". y Council for National "No idea is shocking. An idea is only will do anything about So said a government press release last July. something that you investigate whether it is true Oddly enough, aspirations and the hopes of d, the body dominated or not," said LCI organiser James Thompson ;torians and the enjoying a rewarding educational experience when asked about some of the views at his ) represent public pop up briefly in Toby Young's 2001 memoir, conference. After telling a female verturns less than 1 ' Private Eve How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, when Jecisions on reporter at length about gender differences in he recalls his infatuation with an undergraduate IQ, Thompson then managed to call the Eye while studying for a PhD at Cambridge in the back by mistake — and promptly asked for Toby. late 1980s. Responding to the Eve, Young said: "I don't "It was the first day of the academic year and, ER accept that listening to someone express an idea in keeping with College tradition, me and several constitutes tacit acceptance or approval of that other 'mature' students were checking out the NIING idea, no matter how unpalatable. That's the kind latest batch of `freshettes'," Young frothed. "Not of reasoning that leads to people in was when being 'no that we had any hope of getting into their platformed' on university campuses." Ind homophobic In the same knickers... Lusting after first years, and knowing statement he managed to misname his own that it would never be reciprocated, was just er, for which she lecture. referring to the "Amanda youth police and Holden" another exercise in self-flagellation, a favourite Memorial Lecture. rather than Constance Holden. post-grad pastime. br at 17 Young himself kept in touch with Thompson "My misery was compounded when she 19 was when he and other attendees over Twitter. Speaking chose a seat directly opposite mine in the alongside them at another conference Its 'sophomoric in Montreal College library, making it impossible for me to last July, he reminisced that For the rrecti messages LCI had been "like a concentrate on my philosophy books. meeting of Charter 77 in Vaclav Havers flat in remainder of that academic year, until I :h he has not yet Prague in the 1970s". Is this the kind of free abandoned my PhD altogether, I tortured myself )&filet of Office speech universities minister Jo Johnson hopes to by imagining what her nubile. 18-year-old body see more of on university campuses? would look like in the nude." .
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