Aberdeen University student banned from union for saying “Rule Britannia” in debate. By Jack Malvern.

Elizabeth Heverin, 19, was banned from using the [Aberdeen University student union’s] property or services for a fortnight after she typed the song title into the webchat during an online debate.

Way to go. Testing ideas and arriving at some conclusion after a debate back and forth — as in Parliament, a courtroom trial, or a science journal — is so yesterday. “Arriving at the truth?” You jest comrade, there is no such thing as truth, only power. The political people are in charge now.