thank you for that, john mcmanus on oxford street in central london.o our top story, the universities ministerjo johnson is going to give a speech later warning that academic institutions must protect free speech. we had a little problem with the sound on an interview earlier, but we return now to tom slater, senior editor of spiked magazine who champions free speech. let's go right back to that first question that i was asking you. do you agree with the basic premise of whatjo johnson you. do you agree with the basic premise of whatjojohnson is going to be saying in this speech? precisely, i think he really recognises the problem, which many of us have been talking about for some years now, which is that universities administrations are becoming increasingly hostile to freedom of speech. university rankings released each year found that 63.5% of universities are severely restricting speech, and thatis severely restricting speech, and that is a huge problem. where we disagree is that i don't think these kind of sanctions and finds is beefing up the off