The author, Frank Furedi, is a founder of the ‘Revolutionary Communist Party’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Furedi
Your link goes on to say this:
“Furedi is associated with the web journal Spiked Online. Furedi maintains that society and universities are undergoing a politically driven ‘dumbing down’ process which is manifest in society’s growing inability to understand and assess the meaning of risk. The rise of the environmental and green movements parallels society’s growing obsession with risk. Furedi also attacks the scientific consensus on global warming,[5] and has criticised the prominent role played by science in policy formation.[6] As a humanist educator, he is critical of the attempt to subject schooling to technocratic and instrumentalist policy making.[7]
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In 2008 he criticised opponents of American vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the Spiked website.[8] He claims: ‘It seems that even fervent advocates of women’s rights will adopt outdated and chauvinistic moral rhetoric when targeting a woman they do not like.’”