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Lionel Shriver

The young oppress their future selves

21 October 2017

9:00 AM

21 October 2017

9:00 AM

Matt Ridley’s fine recent Times column was hardly the first to raise the alarm about the pseudo-Soviet intolerance of the left emerging from university campuses. Yet he began with arresting statistics: ‘38 per cent of Britons and 70 per cent of Germans think the government should be able to prevent speech that is offensive to minorities.’

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