Great news. Free speech is essential to what universities are for: free, critical thought. If the government now can be brave and make universities actually free to attend (bringing back grants not loans) then we’d be putting our money where our mouth is in actively encouraging that freedom of thought.
I do wonder if madly high attendance fees are distorting what universities do and the relationship between student and university. which may not be unrelated to this no-platforming behaviour that some students are showing, but that’s for another thread.