'They accused him of cancelling the Queen, but they cancelled him so he no longer feels able to come back.' The Guardian's chakrabortty on the student 'hounded out' of Britain following a vote to ban the Queen's picture from his common room. mrjamesob
Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty tells James O'Brien of his catchup with the Oxford student who was "hounded out" of Britain following a motion to ban the Queen's picture from his common room that he didn't even support.
Mr Chakrabortty reported in The Guardian that before the common room's meeting, Matthew was "presented with a motion from an MCR subcommittee asking for the removal of the picture of the Queen. Katzman redrafted the motion, playing down its accusation of colonialism". Matthew left the UK following a backlash over the decision and is now doing his PhD in America as he "no longer feels able to come back to this country", according to Mr Chakrabortty.
"What happened as a result of the press, pretty directly, was he started within hours of the first blog post... getting hate mail.
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