If you dare to walk onto a university campus, you better prepare yourself. Flags bearing the stern face of Lenin drape from windows. Reincarnated soldiers of the Red Army patrol the corridors. The harmonic chime of ‘The Red Flag’ hangs in the air.

Yes, according to a ground-breaking study by the Adam Smith Institute, eight out of ten UK universities are ‘left-wing’.

As a result, the ASI bemoans the torments that right-wing students are forced to endure. It warns that universities ‘are liable to become afflicted by group think’ where if you dare to speak out, ‘dissenting opinions are neutralised.’ Instead of worrying if their tie is the right shade of blue, today’s conservative students face an onslaught of ‘ideological homogeneity’.

The claim that most students and academics are Lefties is hardly surprising. And initially it does seem that universities have an aversion to conservative views. At Sussex University a few weeks ago, academics felt the need to hold a workshop to ‘deal with right-wing attitudes in the classroom’. This followed Spiked’s Free Speech University Rankings, which revealed that 20 universities now ban certain newspapers. Unsurprisingly, The Guardian was left unscathed. It was right-wing tabloids that were vilified.