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With increasing numbers of students claiming to be ‘triggered’ by free speech, we talk to those pushing against the trend

The university watchdog chief has said a ‘robust and tolerant’ exchange of views is an ‘essential’ part of higher education

Senior academics at Durham University were last night accused of whipping up a mob (pictured) of Left-wing students attempting to oust the head of a college amid a free-speech row.

Sean Hannigan, 22, (pictured) is one of the ringleaders of the student backlash against Rod Liddles speech at Durham University and a Jeremy Corbyn supporter who stood for the Labour Party.

PETER HITCHENS: Durhams Professor Tim Luckhurst (pictured) has had to apologise, because he called his own students pathetic for their conformism.

Hundreds of students demanded a "safe, more inclusive" campus at a Durham University protest, days after walking out of a talk by Rod Liddle.

The stories about Downing Street happenings that never happened are becoming increasingly surreal

Events at Durham this week have propelled this university and its 20,000-strong student body on to the front line of the latest campus culture war.

Dorothy Luckhurst (pictured) told how the baying mob intimidated her and rounded on her husband Professor Tim for organising the talk at Durham University.

A DURHAM University principal who has come under pressure for calling students “pathetic” has stepped back from some of his duties after the…