Policy Exchange thinktank urges government to impose free speech regulatorBritish university staff oppose efforts to sack colleagues who produce controversial research, according to a report on political diversity in higher education that claims to reveal “an important reservoir of support for academic freedom”.The report by the right-leaning thinktank Policy Exchange Read more
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