re: #389 Killgore Trout

Another good point too…

There are some good points in that piece, but the one you point out there is decidedly not one of them.

Indeed, a cynic could point to the fact that some prominent critics of his rejection of the EDL, like Nottingham University academic Matthew Goodwin, the recipient of almost 100,000 of UK government funding to research the far-right, have a vested interest in the survival of the EDL.

That hogwash discredits the rest of the piece. One might as well say that doctors do not want to see diseases eradicated because they make their livings treating sick people.

And why would the author not think the same criticism is equally valid when applied to himself?

James Brandon is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London. He was Quilliam’s Director of Research and Communications from 2008 to 2011.

Is he pro-radicalisation? A cynic might suggest so.

Also, since he’s from Quilliam, of course he would tend to take Tommy’s change of heart as sincere more so than the average observer.