Why we MUST fight the Leftist thought police banning free speech from our universities
By Benjamin Harris-Quinney, Daily Express:
I asked one of my fellow travellers, Peter Hitchens, why he bothered to do it after so many years. He said: “Because if I didn’t these students would have an education consisting entirely of leftist propaganda and lies”.
Very little of that has changed in its 65-year history, and Conservatism is, was, and will likely always be an important part of the political and cultural make up of Britain.
Whether you agree with Conservative thinking or not, it must form an important part of any education into politics, economics, philosophy and more.
In November last year, our Senior Patron Sir Roger Scruton was “no platformed” at Bristol University, over an article he wrote in the 1980s warning against Same Sex Marriage.
Read also: The mob and the crowd by Brendan O’Neill, Medium