Free speech needs a law: Face the problem as it is — the modern academy is running on different train-tracks to liberal humanist thinking

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The Free Speech Union, of which I’m the Chief Legal Counsel, assists many young university students who are punished for having opinions not to the taste of those with power and the unscrupulousness to abuse it. To be fair, some university administrators are well-meaning but misguided. It is certain too that many administrators are simply terrified witless — disregard a claim that someone, somewhere is offended, and who knows what denunciation may follow?

Bryn Harris, The Critic, 25th April 2021.