Toby Young to help lead government's new universities regulator

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5. Toby Young Has Deleted Tens Of Thousands Of Old Tweets After A Backlash To His New Universities Role

Toby Young has deleted tens of thousands of old tweets on the same day his appointment to the government's new universities regulator was defended by Boris Johnson.

Since it was announced on Monday that the journalist and free schools advocate would sit on the board of the newly created Office for Students (OfS), people have been sharing examples of Young's previous tweets, questioning whether he is a suitable appointment to represent the interests of students, particularly women.

Almost all of the offending tweets are now gone, with Young deleting nearly 50,000 on Wednesday alone.

Young, an associate editor at the Spectator and a frequent contributor to the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph, has been defended by foreign secretary Boris Johnson (his former editor at the Spectator), who said he would bring "independence, rigour and caustic wit" to the role, and was the "ideal man" for the job.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/toby-young-has-deleted-tens-of-thousands-of-old-tweets

A small sample of that "caustic wit" (more at the BuzzFeed article):





For balance:

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Angus Harrison
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Interesting to see everyone criticising Toby Young for tweets he posted nearly ten years ago. Maybe try and remember how immature you were in your mid-forties.