Calling out British institutions for fostering a “complete intolerance of opposing ideas,” Minister of State for Higher and Further Education Michelle Donelan says there is a need for common sense as she pushed forward for legislation “with teeth” for free speech at universities.
Talking at an event held by the major British conservative think tank Policy Exchange, Donelan was referring to January’s news that JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book had been given a trigger warning by the University of Chester’s English Department to students over “difficult conversations about gender, race, sexuality, class, and identity.”
