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Anna van Praagh

OPINION - Oxford students are playing a risky and dangerous game with free speech

Last week in the park with my daughter I got chatting to a lady. Over the course of a 10 minute conversation we cantered through why she thought Covid was a massive conspiracy and that British people were racist for expressing such sorrow over the plight of Ukrainians while ignoring the many tragedies that take place in Africa. She told me you couldn’t trust anything you read in the mainstream media, which was basically a manipulating vector for government.

The conversation was uncomfortable but I listened politely then made my excuses.

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