English universities fear legal minefield under free speech bill

Why is this necessary? In the early 1980s, the University of York student union invited a member of the IRA to speak. Many were opposed to this.. but it was far more effective to heckle him & set off party poppers during the meeting than to 'no platform' a member of a terrorist organisation.

The article has repeated recourse to the phrase "the life out of campus." I confess I am puzzled as to what this means. Plain sense tells me that "out of campus" means (or should mean) "when not on campus," but the whole context of the article implies the opposite sense "when on campus (and so subject to university regulations/protections"). Just what does "out of" mean here?

If someone wants to express support for some unsupportable position, be it flat earth or eugenics or 7-day creationism or a Moon made of cheese or the Queenh is a lizard or whatever, it is far more effective to let them be ridiculed on-platform than to no-platform them and maybe even allow some conspiracy cult to evolve around why they must be hidden and silenced. Silenced movements and opinions often grow very well underground, hidden away, like fungus, where they are iundees and so insufficiently challenged. Light, bright light, is the best cleansing agent.