![]() Thomas Mair, the far-right terrorist who murdered Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016, subscribed to a print magazine published by the club called SA Patriot. The chairman of the Springbok Club is Alan Harvey – a former activist for the far-right group, the National Front. Roberts – who has a first class BA honours degree in Modern History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge – says he didn’t realise the club was a racist organisation and didn’t recall anyone saying anything racist. In 2009, journalist Johann Hari pointed out that Roberts had in 2001 spoken at a dinner of the Springbok Club – a pro-apartheid association of expat South Africans. ![]() Interviewed in 2006 by the Financial Times, Roberts claimed to always have been “extremely right-wing” – and the record doesn’t contradict this assertion. With a longstanding belief among right-wing culture warriors that academia is dominated by the ‘liberal left’, in what seems to be a concerted effort to amplify conservative academics and rewrite history in a pro-conservative direction, Grimes has once again played host to a right-wing university contrarian.įollowing on from his controversial ‘interview’ with historian David Starkey, Grimes released a new video today with historian Andrew Roberts, Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Tufton Street Brexiter Darren Grimes has given a platform to another right-wing historian with a record of controversies. ![]()
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