Today’s UK headlines, summarised and analysed.

Thursday 26 October, 2017

Good morning

Brief overview: Universities come under fire for teaching with an anti-Brexit stance. The NHS is floating a new scheme that would allow members of the public to take in recovering patients and charge them up one hundred pounds a night.

Outside of the headlines: Voting is currently underway in Kenya as a re-run of the presidential election takes place. Cambridge Analytica, the company that has hidden links to both the Trump and Brexit campaigns, admitted to approaching Julian Assange for further information.

It emerged that The Telegraph has an £800,000 annual contract to publish Chinese propaganda with the state owned China Daily.

Poll of the day:

via Statista

Cartoon of the day:

via Patrick Blower

The Daily Mail

Owned by: Daily Mail and General Trust, owned by Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere

Editor: Paul Dacre

Political leaning: Right / far right

Daily circulation: circa 1,490,000 (10 million views per month from personal computer and 20 million from mobiles)

Brexit stance: Pro-Brexit

Today’s leading headline: Our remainer universities

The Daily Mail has accused universities across the UK of teaching an anti-Brexit stance at their institutions. The paper has issued this front cover in retaliation to the uproar around Tory whip Chris Heaton-Harris asking professors to tell the government how they are teaching Brexit to their students, in a move many labelled ‘McCarthyism’.

The Mail goes on to quote two anonymous students who said they felt intimidated by their professors and class mates voting to remain.

Afterthought: This should come as no surprise. Numerous research papers showed the correlation between voters with a higher education and voting remain. Universities are a place for higher education.

As the paper has screamed at its audience a thousand times over: universities aren’t supposed to be safe spaces. Your ideas are supposed to be challenged within their walls. If it so happens that 90% of your classmates and professors voted to Remain, then so what?

In the end, let’s take the word of the editor of the paper himself, Paul Dacre. Asked about his university political experience, he said simply: