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Tim Luckhurst

OPINION - The Left’s tactics of the Inquisition are stifling free speech at our universities

Professor Deborah Prentice, the first American to serve as vice-chancellor at the University of Cambridge, has promised to provide free-speech events for students. These occasions will not take the form of conventional debates.

Professor Prentice explains that debating is too confrontational. Cambridge students will have the opportunity to participate in dialogues instead.

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