
Toby Young: Free speech includes the right to be offensive, Mr Speaker
Hoyle is within his rights to disapprove of the media reporting Commons gossip about Rayner, but not to summon journalists.
Hoyle is within his rights to disapprove of the media reporting Commons gossip about Rayner, but not to summon journalists.
Complying with the request for extradition from the United States would be a blow for press freedom on both sides of the Atlantic
Steve Bray might be rude and crude, but it’s a price worth paying to avoid putting more barriers between politicians and people.
Despite ministers’ reassurances and some improvements, the Bill’s safeguards for free speech online are insufficient.
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a man whose social media activity saw him in trouble with the law.
These powers, like all the existing laws relating to so called ‘hate speech’, will always be deployed in a politically asymmetrical way.
University culture wars are emblematic of a wider societal sickness; one that the Government has done little to get a grip on.
Truss says her “vision is to strengthen our economic and security ties in order to build a network of liberty around the world.”
Zahawi, the new Education Secretary, should consider whether the bill as it stands is a sticking plaster.
Issues that could be settled in the pub are being taken to regulators and the High Court.
The third part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
“We do have a challenge…it is to respond to the new political configuration here without falling into the trap of statism.”
As the culture war becomes more vicious, we lose sight of what ought to be the elemental precepts of a liberal society.