I was once Oxford Union president. I don’t recognize what it’s become
We cannot allow those who make a mockery out of free speech to weaponize it against us
Five years ago, I accidentally became the oldest ever president of the Oxford Union after a light-hearted online campaign in the middle of lockdown. I stood up for free expression and against “cancellations” in a moment of rising political intolerance. Yesterday I resigned as secretary of the trust that owns the Union’s buildings over comments made by the president-elect that gloried in the shooting of Charlie Kirk on an American campus.