Nadhim Zahawi and the sad state of student radicals

When did student radicals become so pathetic? There’s a lot of talk – often rightly so – of how sinister woke student activism can be today. Think balaclava-clad blokes protesting against Kathleen Stock at the University of Sussex over her alleged ‘transphobia’ – that is, her heretical belief in biological sex. Or students at Essex University condemning gender-critical academic Jo Phoenix and proclaiming in a flyer ‘SHUT THE F**K UP TERF’ next to an image of a gun. But much of the censorious agitation that goes on on campuses today is often just embarrassing – the wail of entitled, overgrown infants afraid of hurty words.

Events at the University of Warwick on Friday are a case in point. As the Daily Telegraph reports, education secretary Nadhim Zahawi, appearing at a Conservative student event, was met with protests. A few dozen activists showed up chanting ‘Zahawi is a transphobe’ and brandishing trans flags and placards.