How Very Common! Royal Institution Rudeness!

So a completely normal booking for a meeting room was made for the rather impressive French pundit (and possible President!) Eric Zemmour.

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Zemmour

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The idea was to let French people living in or near London hear his patriotic message.

Several hundred people had indicated their intention to attend.

Then…

Zap!

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Cancelled!

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No Reason Given!

If that ‘Royal Institution’ had the guts to say they don’t believe in free speech, or that they fear left hoodlum violence –

…which occurred at the weekend…

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…red nazi hooligans disrupting the candidate’s walk-about in Marseilles.

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– one could at least acknowledge that they were telling something like the truth.

But get this creepy-crawly ‘explanation!’

“Following a process of due diligence the RI has taken the decision to cancel the venue hire event and therefore Mr Zemmour will not be speaking at the RI... “

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/17/royal-institution-cancels-event-with-far-right-french-pundit-eric-zemmour

Mr Zemmour is too well-bred, perhaps, to tell the RI drips to take their craven ‘due diligence’ and stuff it..

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The Royal Institution of Great Britain

21 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4BS

+44 (0) 20 7409 2992

(9.00am – 6.00pm Mon – Fri)

ri@ri.ac.uk

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But I would.