Cambridge must hold its nerve over James Orr
James Orr’s lectures in Cambridge have been disrupted again by students. On Friday, a mob of protesters shouted and banged on the windows of the associate professor of religion’s lesson in an apparent effort to dissuade undergraduates from taking his paper. A week earlier, two student activists members of the Fire James Orr Campaign disrupted a lecture he was delivering. Demonstrators say they won’t stop until the former head of policy at Reform UK stops teaching at Cambridge. The university needs to resist this blatant attempt at cancel culture. What is unfolding in Cambridge appears to be a reaction against the Jason Arday scandal, whose death the protesters are seeking to avenge. But Orr was not responsible for Arday’s death.
