I once had a colleague who was full of wit and wisdom, but who was always getting into scrapes. He was once accused (it was the 1980s) of using a photocopier in an overly masculine and patriarchal fashion. I fear that people prone to making such accusations used to lie in wait for him.
I was reminded of this when I read about the University of Edinburgh student who was accused of being in violation of that institution's fatuous safe space policy when she raised her hand during a meeting in what was deemed by the over-potty-trained to be an inappropriate way. It was good, therefore, to hear that students at universities, including Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Leeds, the LSE, Manchester, Oxford, Queen Mary, Portsmouth and York, have set up free speech societies with the aim of overcoming such nonsense.
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