Where is the evidence that ‘universities are the enemy’?

In the last five years, UK universities have increasingly experienced similar indictments and have been portrayed as politically charged spaces in the media, described as everything from ‘woke campuses’ to sites of a ‘free speech crisis’. Such media coverage usually claims that British universities exert a strong influence on students’ political views, particularly by promoting left-wing or ‘woke’ ideologies. But what evidence are these narratives based on?