Would be interested to know from any legal scholar whether and how such damaging acts can be overturned or improved

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The college & society hosting this event refer to universities’ legal obligation to host such events. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act defines academic freedom in the same way as free speech, so it is now enshrined in law that any argument-regardless of academic rigour-must be platformed

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This is something that's going to be a real problem in US politics after Trump is gone. How do you reverse the damage to institutions he's done without falling into the same trap? Perhaps the first step is naming it clearly, but that requires a lot of trust with a lot of competing publics.

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Every route out runs through offices whose legitimacy is the very thing in dispute. Follow the captured procedures from captured institutions, and the captors run down the clock. Step outside them and you hand your opponents a coup narrative, and a precedent.

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This is what makes institutional capture so damaging, it’s not just that the wrong people end up running an institution, it’s that capture destroys the shared rules you’d need to undo it.

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