Spare a thought for the Daily Mail. The government is now so outrageously agenda-driven that it’s nicking all of the paper’s limelight.

This week, the Tory whip Chris Heaton-Harris MP got in trouble for writing letters to universities asking for information and names regarding their Brexit teaching.

So the Mail, clearly envious of the attention, and maybe spooked by the Tories’ recent insistence on protecting “free speech” on campus, has decided to make its own McCarthyist move.

Splashing on “Our Remainer Universities”, it has run an article all about how many academics and students are pro-European – ie. highlighting that the UK’s most educated people are against Brexit.

And as if that doesn’t undermine the Mail’s message enough, it has included a call-out for readers to shop their professors and universities for “anti-Brexit bias”:



It gives an email address and everything. Guess how people are responding:

Let’s all send in our stories pic.twitter.com/p2rvSHQS4y — Will Davies (@davies_will) October 26, 2017

I'm just scared they may miss the point and take me seriously... (1/2) pic.twitter.com/Ae4kPRjZoR — Tom Goodwin (@opentheirminds) October 26, 2017

I wouldn't dream of doing that. pic.twitter.com/Ga2zEmysMC — Sussex Owl (@SussexOwl1) October 26, 2017

‘I once drank a cappuccino in front of some students.’ — Benjamin Poore (@Benjamin_Poore) October 26, 2017

@NewStatesman I've reported my father for expressing some subversive views. Felt conflicted, but I don't want to be a traitor to my country. pic.twitter.com/JpjhF9kIMj — Tonym (@TMLONDON1000) October 26, 2017

It would be dreadful if the mail was flooded with emails wouldn’t it? pic.twitter.com/4WbWQCFzDU — Prof Pat Tissington (@tissington) October 26, 2017

My email to the Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/cG88WIEf2W — Kathryn (@KathrynTarry) October 26, 2017

I'm taking another approach in the hope of being published... pic.twitter.com/oTtoi6A8w6 — Neitherangryorscared (@NeAnOrScared) October 26, 2017

Way ahead of you pic.twitter.com/1uTWFlu83J — Adam Bennett (@Adam_Bennett93) October 26, 2017

Here was my attempt... pic.twitter.com/VbNXy4fdfu — Mike Holden (@MikeHolden42) October 26, 2017



This mole looks forward to tomorrow, when the Mail will surely publish a round-up of what it has learned from all this intel it asked for…