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#PodcastOfIdeas: the battle for free speech on campus
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#PodcastOfIdeas: the battle for free speech on campus

Tom Slater, deputy editor of spiked, on this year's spiked Free Speech University Rankings.

A year ago, spiked‘s groundbreaking Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR) revealed that there was active suppression of speech and expression at 80 per cent of UK universities. Tom Slater, deputy editor of spiked and coordinator of the FSUR project, talks to Rob Lyons about the FSUR 2016 and why, if anything, censorship on UK campuses is getting worse.

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