A criminology professor got investigated for saying biological sex is real. A history student got failed for arguing the British Empire wasn't entirely evil. A visiting speaker was uninvited because some students said her views on gender made them feel "unsafe."

Unsafe. At a university. Where you're supposed to have your ideas challenged. That's literally what it's for.

The Free Speech Union's annual report dropped last week. Over 200 documented cases of censorship on British campuses in the past twelve months. Academics sacked, students disciplined, speakers cancelled. Not for saying anything extreme. For saying things that most people in the pub would consider fairly normal.

Here's the stat that should worry everyone: 76% of conservative-leaning students say they self-censor on campus. They keep their mouths shut because they've seen what happens to people who don't. Meanwhile, 12% of left-leaning students say the same. If your university only has one acceptable political viewpoint, it's not a university. It's a church.

The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was supposed to fix this. The Tories passed it. Labour has quietly let it gather dust. The universities minister called the report "deeply concerning" and then did absolutely nothing, which is the standard governmental response to things that are deeply concerning.

The damage is already visible. The civil service, the media, the arts. All staffed by graduates from institutions where disagreement is treated as violence and conformity is mistaken for virtue. We've produced a professional class that can navigate a sensitivity training workshop but can't handle someone disagreeing with them over lunch.

Professor James Tooley from the University of Buckingham summed it up: "We've created graduates who are brilliant at being offended but hopeless at being challenged."

Stick that on a prospectus.