This week former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who was in charge of the Home Office at the time of the Windrush scandal in 2018, was disinvited by the UNWomen Oxford Society after originally inviting Rudd to speak for International Women’s Day. According to The Guardian, Oxford’s African Caribbean Society claim that they didn’t call for Rudd to be cancelled nor did they plan to boycott the talk, after suggestions were made by the UNWomen Oxford Society. Nevertheless, this story has added fuel to the perception that there is a free speech ‘crisis’ at British universities today and resulted in numerous calls for places like Oxford University to remain a bastion of free speech.
These calls are misleading because there is a long history of students attempting to prevent controversial figures from speaking at Oxford, through the formal use of a ‘no platform’ policy, or by picketing, or disrupting the…
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