Oh dear. Of late, Mr S has kept readers up to date with the antics of today’s Stepford students. From students at LSE submitted a motion to ban the university’s free-speech society to City University students banning newspapers at the institution famed for its journalism school. Now it’s the turn of young Conservatives.
Over at Lincoln University, the Student Union has suspended the Conservative Society’s social media use. The reason? Young Tories dared to suggest that the powers-that-be were intolerant of free speech. Students screen-shotted and shared a Spiked article which ranked the university as code ‘red’ in terms of censorship of ‘free speech’.
When your response to accusations that you limit free speech is to try and silence the source, there is a problem.
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