Universities should be bastions of freedom

In the West and in China and Hong Kong, the learning and research of university students is being curtailed, one from within and the other from without, says Chris Patten

I would wager that I have been chancellor of more universities than anyone alive today.

This is partly because when I was governor of Hong Kong, I was made chancellor of every university in the city. I protested that it would surely be better for the universities to choose their own constitutional heads.