Every generation, and individual, has to rediscover the arguments for free speech for themselves. Some people learn from major incidents. Some when the censors come for someone close to them,
Most people won’t have heard of Selina Todd. The only reason I had was because some years ago the BBC invited me to appear alongside her on one of those
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L’essayiste anglais se félicite du retrait de la Grande-Bretagne de l’Union. Il juge que ses compatriotes ont voulu retrouver leur pleine souveraineté dans le cadre de leurs institutions politiques nationales.
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Does ITV actually think that Alastair Stewart is a secret racist, really hates black people and has spent his life hating black people? Read more
‘Cancel culture’ is a horrible term because outside of a dictatorship nobody can actually be ‘canceled’ or otherwise ‘disappeared’. All that can happen is that people can be found to
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