Freddie Attenborough

Freddie Attenborough is Research Manager at the Committee for Academic Freedom

Articles

Free Speech

A step forward for free speech in our universities

After 17 months of drift following the Government’s January 2025 reset of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, the free speech complaints scheme administered by the Office for Students (OfS) is at last going ahead. The Government has now signed the commencement regulations needed to bring the scheme into force. From 1 September […]

Free Speech

Should we have banned Cenk Uygur from the UK?

Should universities have a say before speakers are excluded from the UK? The Government has cancelled the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) of a controversial left-wing US political commentator, in a move that prevents him from appearing at one of the UK’s oldest debating societies and raises renewed questions about broad and discretionary powers used to […]