At Oxford students now live in fear – they think cancelling each other will help them get ahead

Intro:

We need to stop living in fear and break the collective spell cast over the dreaming spires by an aggressive group of self-hating ideologues.

I will admit that I used to relish telling people that I go to the University of Oxford, and to some extent I still do. However, now when I sheepishly tell another conference attendee this, it is met with sympathetic tuts and murmurs of “That must be tough”. They don’t mean the workload. They mean the abysmal culture of intolerance towards freedom of speech that has somehow manifested here….