Leftie? Yes, and proud to be among those upholding Enlightenment values | Will Hutton

The Mail’s attack on universities is typical of a campaign denigrating those who dare to question BrexitAcademic freedom is the soil in which knowledge flourishes. The freedom to research, to follow where evidence leads, to argue, to be challenged, to exchange ideas freely and to disseminate the results lie at the heart of academic life. Immanuel Kant captured the spirit that animates universities when he said that knowledge was a process in which human beings dared to know.The great advan