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No sacred cows

My advice for the next ‘free speech champion’

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

I was delighted to hear the government plans to appoint a ‘free speech champion’ to the board of the Office for Students. His or her responsibility will be to make sure universities in England and Wales do everything that is reasonably practicable to uphold freedom of speech within the law, including preventing external speakers from being no-platformed by student activists.

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