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TopicFree speech & protest

Explainers and SU blogs on this topic, newest first.

How to understand the so-called “culture wars”

15/07/21

How do people feel about the “culture wars”?

11/06/21

It is Prevent that chills free speech on campus

Howard Chae|SU blog|14/05/21

Universities need to create safe but critical spaces for debate – here’s how

Alison Scott-Baumann|SU blog|12/04/21

Student politics is too important to cut off from support

Becky Thomson|SU blog|19/03/21

Shouldn’t students’ unions be free from worrying about others’ free speech?

Jim Butcher|SU blog|19/03/21

What SU trustees need to know about free speech and SUs

11/03/21

How should SUs respond to DfE’s proposed free speech “standards”?

19/02/21

Ten things SUs can do now on free speech and political diversity

Jim Dickinson|SU blog|15/02/21

Is there any evidence of cancel culture?

21/01/21

Covid precarity is radicalising a new generation of students

Sean Porter|SU blog|11/12/20

The Charity Commission and free speech in SUs

10/12/20

Consensus statement: Freedom of speech and students’ unions, guilds and associations – next steps

Meg Price|SU blog|13/11/20

Proposed work on students’ union, association and guild freedom of expression and wider standards

09/10/20

Back to the future on no platforming

01/10/20

Policy Exchange proposals on SUs and freedom of speech

03/08/20

What it’s like being a muslim student in the UK (and what students think about Islam)

14/07/20

Getting comfortable with direct action

Sean Porter|SU blog|18/06/20

What was different about the campus free speech battles of the 1990s?

Evan Smith|SU blog|12/05/20

From blunders to “petty McCarthyism” – the fall and rise and Turning Point UK

Jack Harvey|SU blog|10/03/20

The debate over “no-platforming” may end up sucking the life out of campuses

Robert Liow|SU blog|08/03/20

Are universities a sinister cult, and can you have a “neutral” education?

06/12/19

Student views (and student types) on campus free speech

05/12/19

Should there be new law to protect debate on campus?

11/11/19

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