I wouldn’t call the pomos left wing either. If the left is all about messianic belief in certain well-intentioned but ill-judged values, postmodernism is nothing like this – it is a rejection of facts and values, it is obscurantism and elitism. It is conservative, and it has served a conservative agenda by thoroughly confusing much of the left (even more).

Science is seen as a tool for manipulation of people by politicians rather than a means of finding out how the world works.

Ditto animal rights. I think your mistake is to assume that someone who doesn’t wash must automatically be leftwing.

Face it. The Mail is just getting revenge because last week scientists finally found conclusive proof that the Daily Mail is shit.

There are still those who are affected enough to say they know nothing about the sciences as if this somehow makes them superior. What it makes them is rather silly, and it puts them at the fag end of that tired old British tradition of intellectual snobbery which considers all knowledge, especially science, as “trade.”