Brendan O’Neill Brendan O’Neill

The censorship didn’t begin with Kathleen Stock

Student demonstrate against Kathleen Stock (photo: Getty)

It’s 2023 and a lesbian requires security guards to speak at the Oxford Union.

That image of Kathleen Stock arriving in Oxford yesterday, looking badass in shades and a baseball cap, surrounded by burly blokes who were tasked with protecting her from assault, shames Oxford university.

This is meant to be one of the highest seats of learning on earth.

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