Free Speech Rankings: misleading, ill-informed and worryingly influential

If you don't think that there is a problem with free speech on university campuses, you've either never been to one, or you have your head in the sand.

I second that Martin Wayne. Good on Spiked for alerting the less informed to the problem.

Any evidence you'd like to offer here to support this, Martin, that we could maybe debate? Or any thoughts on what is in fact the main thrust of the piece - that cancelling a student night club out of courtesy to local residents is hardly meaningful censorship or suppression of intellectual debate? And likewise with refusing to run ads from payday loan companies and many other things Spiked classify as 'censorship' - they're really not!

Further to the above, here is New Scientist's take on these scare stories: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731662-900-curbing-hate-speech-isnt-censorship-its-the-law/

For anyone wishing to read up on Spiked's background and current agenda, here are some useful discussions: https://spiked-watch.tumblr.com/post/169304015155/what-does-spikedonline-really-want https://spiked-watch.tumblr.com/post/167798193240/life-inside-the-rcp-cult http://wonkhe.com/blogs/were-all-special-snowflakes-now/ http://www.lobbywatch.org/lm_watch.html http://www.variant.org.uk/24texts/lmnetwork.html