In recent years, universities in the United Kingdom have been targets of infiltration of far left ideology. Attacks on freedom of speech and self-censorship have become more and more acute. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland is one example. A group of scholars from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland wrote an open letter in September 2020, criticizing the principal and vice-chancellor, Peter William Mathieson, for pandering to the ultra-left and allowing Marxist BLM students to attack faculty members. They expressed “strong objection” to Mathieson’s handling of the matter and asked for his resignation. Mathieson, a British nephrologist, previously served four years as principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), from April 2014 to January 2018. Six months after he became the new president at HKU, the student democracy protest movement “Occupy Central with Love and Peace” broke out in Hong Kong. In the middle of an …