God what a lot of impenetrable gibberish. Hard to discern what, if anything, the new powers will entail, but I guess we'll find out next week when we get the ministerial statement rather than the govt-approved Telegraph spin. https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1360720263588020232

I mean, how exactly would this work? The government going to each student union and forcing them to invite someone from their approved list of commentators? They're off their dimwit tits.

Not so long ago the government had a blacklist of media outlets it wouldn't talk to because they had the temerity to scrutinise the prime minister. Now they set themselves up as the supposed defenders of free speech.

None of this is genuine. It's just their idiot culture war. But even if it was genuine, the fight for free speech is not settled by governments dictating what people debate. It's done through people and organisations themselves.

And I can't even begin to express how much harder it is to win that fight when the Conservatives weaponise free speech as part of their 'war on woke'.