Following the treatment of female academics by transgender activists, an amendment to a new free speech bill will attempt to deal with those who try to silence speakers on campuses.
Academics have forwarded an amendment to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill to deal with the use of the “heckler’s veto” on campuses.
The heckler’s veto refers to attempts to silence the speech of others by drowning out and shouting over speakers with the aim of severely disrupting events.
Lawyer and academic James Murray, alongside professor Alice Sullivan of University College London, drafted the amendment with Labour peers Lord Hunt and Baroness Morris in order to combat the use of the heckler’s veto to “silence legitimate debate and dampen academic freedom on campus.”…