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REVEALED: The strange forces behind the government’s ‘Free Speech’ push

Steve Melia
17 February, 2021

Untangling the web of influences behind the Tories’ latest political obsession.

Could these proposed new advertising rules damage freedom of speech?

Josiah Mortimer
10 July, 2019

The Committee of Advertising Practice has proposed changes to advertising rules to protect ‘public sensitivities’.

Free speech on campus is under threat – but not from who you think

Edward Sugden
25 October, 2018

Rather than safe spaces and no platforming, it is government policies that are the real threat to freedom of expression.

There’s no ‘free speech’ crisis in universities. The government are deflecting from the real issues

Amatey Doku
23 October, 2017

It’s no surprise that the Tory-led witch hunt over ‘censorship’ comes whilst our universities and students suffer a serious funding and access crisis.

Extremists like Milo should be challenged, not shut down by mobs

Rashad Ali
8 February, 2017

Rashad Ali replies to James Bloodworth on fascism and free speech

Two years after Charlie Hebdo, here are five cartoonists under threat

Christophe Deloire
6 January, 2017

Reporters Without Borders honours cartoonists standing for free speech

Brendan O’Neill is right – the ‘tyranny of custom’ is a threat to free speech

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
29 November, 2016

Eric Bristow is no free speech hero. The footballers he’s attacking are.

Theresa May blasts ‘safe space’ students, but she’s a bigger free speech menace

Adam Barnett
15 September, 2016

Beware those who complain about ‘no-platforming’ but not draconian security measures

Comment: Silencing dissenters is key to the survival of the far-Left

Emily Dyer
7 December, 2015

Organisations including the National Union of Students have made silencing ‘controversial’ voices a priority

The gender pay debate is bigger than Professor Tim Hunt

Ruby Stockham
30 June, 2015

Female professors at Hunt’s university earn £2,200 less than their male counterparts

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