We need to talk about free speech again. Sorry.

Readers of this fabulous website will generally think, as I do, that the free speech ‘crisis’ is overblown. They will sigh and tut, as I do, when universities are described as ‘left-wing madrassas’ by commentators with malign intentions. They will find it a little hypocritical, as I do, when students who protest controversial speakers are criticised for expressing their free speech. But there is a free speech problem. More...