Eton figures to join populist politicians and wealthy backers at ‘anti-woke Davos’

Peterson speaking at last year’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, which has been labelled an ‘anti-woke’ Davos. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA View image in fullscreen Peterson speaking at last year’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, which has been labelled an ‘anti-woke’ Davos. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA Eton figures to join populist politicians and wealthy backers at ‘anti-woke Davos’ Exclusive: Event co-founded by Jordan Peterson will bring together rightwing figures, US state officials and anti-abortionists in London Nigel Farage and fellow Reform UK MPs Sarah Pochin and Andrew Rosindell will be there. As will a plethora of Reform advisers, backroom staff and figures, such as Ben Delo, a British crypto billionaire who has given £4m to Nigel Farage’s party . Yet as populist-right politicians from across the globe and their multimillionaire backers prepare for this year’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) – a rightwing London summit labelled an “anti-woke Davos” – others whose expected attendance has not been publicised potentially raises more questions. They include two leading figures from Eton college: Tom Arbuthnott, who is the elite school’s deputy head (partnerships), and Luke Martin, a theology master at the school. Martin was previously at odds with the school’s modernisation and resigned from a role in 2020 in protest at the dismissal of another teacher, taking issue with the promotion of a “so-called progressive ideology” at the school, which he likened to religious fundamentalism. He remains a teacher at Eton, where he is master of divinity. He will be among 4,000 people from more than 85 countries descending on London’s Olympia exhibition centre for three days of speeches and discussions hosted by Arc. Speakers will include Sarah B Rogers, the US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and an official who has become the public face of the Trump administration’s growing hostility to European liberal democracies . View image in fullscreen Jordan Peterson interviews Nigel Farage on stage during last year’s Arc conference in London. Photograph: Ben Whitley/PA She has attacked policies on hate speech and immigration by ostensible US allies, and promoted far-right parties. A number of other US government attendees – including a state department official involved in interference in UK abortion rights and the online safety debate – have also been identified in a joint investigation by the Guardian, Greenpeace’s Unearthed team and DeSmog . They include Samuel Samson, a US state department official who last year challenged Britain’s communications regulator over the impact on freedom of expression created by online safety laws. His meetings with Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) marked the end of decades of a US policy of holding the country’s far right at arm’s length, while he reportedly discussed abortion and censorship privately with Farage . Also attending is Jon Morgan, a senior