Students attending the University of Manchester Pro-Life Society’s inaugural gathering earlier this month were spat at, threatened with rape and barricaded into a venue by a screeching mob. The mob was predominately made up of their young, fellow students – part of the future of this country. 

As both a writer and a reader, I long ago tired of countless column inches lamenting “attacks on free speech” from the “Loony Left”. Such outlooks tend to regard almost all such issues as stemming from a vague “Woke” Leviathan, which they imagine to have magically spawned as a hysterical reaction to the likes of Brexit and Donald Trump.