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AFAF and SAFAF at the Battle of Ideas

Should the state punish universities?

Battle of Ideas Festival 2025

Tag: Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

Left and right on free speech legislation

Professor Lindsay Paterson, emeritus professor of education policy at the University of Edinburgh, discusses the changed attitude of the liberal left to state legislation. Something ideologically peculiar is happening in […]

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