Milo Yiannopoulos, the extreme right-wing polemicist and provocateur, has said he would lead a fightback against “snowflake” culture in higher education if he becomes rector of one of Britain’s oldest universities. The disgraced poster boy for the US alt-right has been nominated to become the main student representative at the University of Glasgow. However, more than 3,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Yiannopoulos — as well as Jordan Peterson, the controversial Canadian academic — to be removed from the ballot before this month’s elections as they consider his “transphobic, misogynistic, violent” views to be unacceptable. Speaking to The Times, Yiannopoulos claimed that higher education was in crisis on both sides of the Atlantic and hit out at “coddled uni kids” who “cover…

Source: The Times March 09, 2017 00:00 UTC