Snowflakes and Bureaucracy: Campaigners Split on UK Academic Free Speech Bill

Snowflakes and Bureaucracy: Campaigners Split on UK Academic Free Speech Bill
A student arrives for a graduation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Oct. 13, 2015. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
|Updated:

The Conservative government has introduced legislation targeting so-called cancel culture in UK universities, which would include the appointment of official free speech tsars on each campus.

The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, introduced last month, has been welcomed by some campaigners who warn free speech has long been frozen in a perfect storm of student “snowflakes,” hyper political correctness, and radical professors.
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
twitter
Related Topics