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Posts Tagged: Free Speech

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.

By Toby Young | 27 April 2022

Georgia L. Gilholy: You don’t have to be a fan of Assange to think he shouldn’t be extradited

Complying with the request for extradition from the United States would be a blow for press freedom on both sides of the Atlantic

By Georgia L. Gilholy | 22 April 2022

Robert Halfon: Why we shouldn’t try to ban obnoxious protesters from outside Parliament

Steve Bray might be rude and crude, but it’s a price worth paying to avoid putting more barriers between politicians and people.

By Robert Halfon | 23 March 2022

Bryn Harris: Free Speech is an afterthought for the Online Safety Bill

Despite ministers’ reassurances and some improvements, the Bill’s safeguards for free speech online are insufficient.

By Bryn Harris | 22 March 2022

Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 16) Counter State Threats Bill

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.

By Paul Goodman | 20 March 2022

The Miller judgment – another blow against hate crime legislation

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a man whose social media activity saw him in trouble with the law.

By Charlotte Gill | 21 December 2021

Marc Glendening: The Online Safety Bill – and the terrifying consequences of making ‘likely psychological harm’ a criminal offence

These powers, like all the existing laws relating to so called ‘hate speech’, will always be deployed in a politically asymmetrical way.

By Marc Glendening | 4 November 2021

The appalling treatment of Kathleen Stock shows new laws alone can’t guarantee free speech

University culture wars are emblematic of a wider societal sickness; one that the Government has done little to get a grip on.

By Charlotte Gill | 14 October 2021

WATCH: The Foreign Secretary promises “to make our country more competitive, safer, and freer”

Truss says her “vision is to strengthen our economic and security ties in order to build a network of liberty around the world.”

3 October 2021

Chris Newton: The Government’s Free Speech Bill won’t fix universities if viewpoint diversity isn’t addressed too

Zahawi, the new Education Secretary, should consider whether the bill as it stands is a sticking plaster.

By Chris Newton | 21 September 2021

Hurrah for the Eton master’s victory. But how much time and money has been wasted on common sense campaigns?

Issues that could be settled in the pub are being taken to regulators and the High Court.

By Charlotte Gill | 16 August 2021

Is racism in Britain increasing?

The third part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 July 2021

Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 5) Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

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.

By Paul Goodman | 18 July 2021

“We have been surprised by the EU’s willingness to resort quite quickly to threats”. Lord Frost’s Königswinter speech.

“We do have a challenge…it is to respond to the new political configuration here without falling into the trap of statism.”

18 June 2021

Daniel Hannan: We cannot allow our solution to the problem of illiberalism to depart from liberal principles

As the culture war becomes more vicious, we lose sight of what ought to be the elemental precepts of a liberal society.

By Lord Hannan | 26 May 2021

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