{"id":663925,"date":"2026-11-01T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663925\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:14:09","slug":"the-decision-to-bar-andreas-malm-from-entering-the-uk-is-farcical-and-chilling-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663925\/","title":{"rendered":"The decision to bar Andreas Malm from entering the UK is farcical and chilling | Higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK higher education is in a confusing and fraught enough state without the government banning distinguished authors on our reading lists such as Andreas Malm (Climate academic Andreas Malm barred from entering UK, 30 October<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Last Thursday I gave a lecture on negative emissions and geoengineering, and recommended The\u00a0Long Heat, which Malm co-authored with Wim Carton, to\u00a0my students.<\/p>\n

The recommendation was obviously not meant as an endorsement of Malm\u2019s position in that book, or of any of his views \u2013\u00a0Malm is a challenging author who holds controversial positions on a range of issues. But he is without a doubt one of the world\u2019s leading environmental historians and scholars of climate change. His books are on my reading lists, and those of many of my colleagues.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d be hard pressed to find anyone working on climate change today who hasn\u2019t, in one way or another, engaged with his work. A ban on his entry to the UK is farcical, and raises chilling\u00a0prospects for all academics\u00a0working on today\u2019s most\u00a0difficult and urgent topics.
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Dr Ahmad Elabbar
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University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK higher education is in a confusing and fraught enough state without the government banning distinguished authors on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-663925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}