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Hi, I'm Anouche.

I'm Alva.

And I'm Stephen.

And on today's New Statement Podcast, we talk about the government versus universities and you ask us,

what do politicians afterlives say about them?

We've had a number of questions from listeners for this episode of the podcast

about free speech on campus and the government's relationship with universities.

And this sort of comes off the back of some outrage about an Oxford College holding an event with Ken Loach,

the film director who has been accused of anti-Semitism in the past.

And Stephen, you were looking into this, weren't you?

What actually happened there and what's it actually got to do with government policy?

Yeah, there's a slightly weird thing.

There's a kind of the latest government announcement on this issue that kind of sits across this,

so slightly awkwardly in a way that doesn't necessarily hear at all, right?

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