Jo Johnson is right about the National Union of Students thought police

Free speech within the law should be fundamental to life in universities: challenging opinions should themselves be challengeable (Students attack no-platform threat, 27 December). As an undergraduate at University College London in the late 1950s, I demonstrated along with hundreds of others in Trafalgar Square against the South African government’s policy of apartheid, an event captured in a front-page photograph in the Daily Worker on 16 March 1959. More...