The prime minister is meeting with university leaders after America’s student protests have spread to the UK. How did universities raise a generation of activists? Yascha Mounk, professor and author, and Rob Henderson, author, discuss with this week’s host, the Spectator’s Political Correspondent James Heale. Also on the show, Lord Mann, the government’s independent antisemitism advisor, and Rakib Ehsan, researcher and author, discuss whether political sectarianism has re-emerged in Britain; Host of the Spectator's Chinese Whispers podcast Cindy Yu explores the geo-politics behind Xi Jinping’s European tour; and James speaks to The Spectator’s Freddy Gray and Jane Mulkerrins, Associate Editor of The Times Magazine, on the Trump-Stormy Daniels trial.

00:00 Welcome from James Heale
01:15 Have universities raised a generation of activists? With Yascha Mounk and Rob Henderson
17:19 Has political sectarianism re-emerged in Britain? With Lord Mann and Rakib Ehsan
33:25 What does Xi Jinping want in Europe? With Cindy Yu
45:43 What’s Stormy Daniels’ endgame? With Freddy Gray and Jane Mulkerrins

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