Translation: there's important work to be done purging the universities of dissent til Spectator Thought is the only accredited doctrine, so RDE is willing to put her usual fierce moral clarity about (one side of) the Troubles on ice in the name of a higher cause.

Their intellectual Freikorps needs "warriors", so they can't afford to be picky. All that moralistic huffing and puffing about the Provos suddenly forgotten; there might be students who don't think Douglas Murray is one of the great minds of our time, so that takes priority.

RDE was gushing in her praise for Tom Bower's "biography" of Corbyn, which—as Peter Oborne showed—was a risible, intellectually degraded farrago, with a generous helping of xenophobic coat-trailing. Again, the ends justify the means for Edwards, it seems.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/tom-bower-book-dangerous-hero-jeremy-corbyn-labour-leader-truth

The Mail has already had to cough up a libel settlement for one of its extracts from Bower's book. Presumably the kind of intellectual standards RDE would like to see imposed on British universities, with the help of contrarian cranks like Fox.