in the us is in ferment, with students occupying certain grounds within the university. mm hm. you ve written a lot over many years about the intellectual atmosphere on campus in america, so i want to begin by asking you what you make of these protests. so, of course, the right to protest, we re all in favour of. the key issue for me is intimidation. this is what began in 2015 a change in the nature of campus life, so that people who are making a political point are doing it not with persuasion but with intimidation. and i ve done a lot of writing about how it was the arrival of social media that allowed people to intimidate others, threaten any dissenters with mob reactions. so my previous book, the coddling of the american mind, was about this strange, new and really kind of frightening morality that came to us right around 2015 it wasn t there in 2013. and so i m starting this way because this is the backstory to what s happening today. yeah, but what you ve already
hello. i m nicky schiller. welcome to the programme. we start this hour with the latest on the uk general election. in the last hour the scottish national party leader, john swinney has launched his party s campaign for the vote onjuly the 4th. at an election rally mr swinney pushed for independence, celebrated his party s record on fighting the cost of living as well as attacking both the conservatives and labour. he said people in scotland wanted rid of a disastrous tory government, and he accusing labour of giving an awfully good impression of them. let s take a listen to some of what the snp leader said. there are some people telling me to forget about this election, but after looking at sir keir starmer s series of u turns, i think people are crying out for political leadership. for leaders who argue for what they actually believe in. and i passionately believe independence is the best opportunity we have to build a more prosperous and fairer country. snp leaderjohn
i m 0lly foster, this is sportsday live from wembley stadium, we are 90 minutes away from kick off in the champions league final between borussia dortmund and the 1a time champions real madrid. we have team news coming up. jude bellingham is la liga s player of the year, can he cap his debut season in spain by becoming a european champion? dortmund will be the underdogs, but they ve defied the odds to reach the final and the fans say they can cause an upset. and i m hugh ferris at the bbc sports centre. also coming up in the programme bath stay on course for their first league title in the 21st century. they beat sale to make the premiership final. and fourth seed alexander zverev survives a huge scare at roland garros to reach the fourth round of the french open. good evening. welcome along. not long to go now before the champions league final between the soul winner s one time to their name, dortmund versus the 1a time champions real madrid. both teams have been walking ou
i am on the conservative campaign bus which had its launch event today and previously viewers have seen us aboard what we have been calling campaign buses and they may not have actually been the properly branded bus but we are now on that after it was unveiled in redcar earlier today and we are now heading back down south towards the capital and earlier the prime minister, rishi sunak, did get on the bus for it s kind of inauguraljourney as the campaign coach but he is not on it now so it is basically just reporters and journalists who have been tracking the prime minister and the conservative campaign over recent days and we have gone to a variety of places, sort of middle to late in the week, including buckinghamshire, and as i say, we went to redcar and we were in the north west yesterday as well and there have been a variety of announcements over those days and the one we had today, as you mentioned a moment ago, was this idea of kind of extending the levelling up fund to