Left-wing biasis entrenched in our university system

LITE universities have long been hothouses of leftist ideology and, more recently, pro-Palestinian protests that intimidate Jewish students. US President Donald Trump has withdrawn state funding from Harvard and other top American institutions in a campaign that we should consider aping in the UK.

- Tim Newark

Furious at the failure to dismantle the aggressively pro-Palestinian encampments that have become a feature of campuses across the country and the endemic left-wing bias of higher education in his country Trump has withheld some $11billion (£8.2billion) of state funding from at least seven top colleges.

Some have accepted the criticism and withdrawn their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programmes, but Harvard, threatened with losing $2billion (£1.4billion) in funding, is suing the White House for interfering in its academic independence.

Supporters are up in arms about the clash. But in my opinion, left-wingers have long dominated academic institutions on both sides of the Atlantic and this ideological takeover ensures the majority of teachers and students are spouting the same socialist, globalist philosophy that has infested politics for years.

THE fact that the Conservative Party has failed to deliver a right-wing manifesto and the Labour Party is distanced from its working class roots is because most politicians are university educated in the same liberal views. They are spoon-fed it at Oxford, Cambridge and the rest of the UK's leading universities.