If you want to see how it’s all gone wrong, compare and contrast how the higher education establishment is responding to two different threats, one from the “Right” and one from the “Left”. The first comes from Tories concerned that universities are increasingly dominated by socialist and pro-Remain voices. In the UK, US and elsewhere, the share of academics who vote for centre-Right parties is probably at its lowest ever level, while professors are much more Left-wing than they were even in the 1990s, as chronicled by the Heterodox Academy.

No more than 12 per cent of British academics vote Tory, according to Noah Carl for the Adam Smith Institute, down 25 percentage points since 1964. The social sciences and humanities are stultifyingly homogenous; Tories tend to hide in science or business departments. Never before has the academy been so politically unrepresentative, and students are not being exposed to enough truly passionate advocates on every side of every argument.