Educating academics will ease UK universities’ foreign influence crisis

So many buzzwords, it's hard to imagine an academic taking this piece seriously. The conservative idea that research is for the national interest and economic profit is the problem here. Let scholars and researchers collaborate freely to improve the world instead. They shouldn't be targetted in influence or culture wars or, seen as sites of rent, profit, or extraction, because who else is going to solve all these global problems? Not politicians, security communities, officials, etc, who have effectively produced all of the global problems over the last 30 years. Most academics understand this.