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Thanks tank calls for government intervention to ringfence freedom of expression
Around half of UK universities do not adequately protect free speech, a think tank has claimed.
In a report on freedom of expression in universities published on 17 December, the right-leaning think tank Civitas found that of 137 UK universities, 48 were “performing badly on free speech” while 70 institutions “are not performing as well as they should”.