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Stuart Waiton
Singing freely across the Old Firm divide
Both Celtic and Rangers fans need to come together to oppose the Scottish government’s sectarianism bill.
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| Tuesday 25 October 2011 |
Kevin Rooney
We need free speech for all – even bigots
A football fan has been jailed for posting sectarian comments on the internet. Why aren’t civil libertarians alarmed?
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| Monday 17 October 2011 |
Jacob Mchangama
Lars von Trier and the dogma of hate speech
Yes, the Danish director’s comments about Hitler were dumb. But no one should be prosecuted for what they say.
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| Wednesday 5 October 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
A licence to kill freedom of expression
Licensing journalists was a bad idea in John Milton’s day - so why are politicians and editors keen to revive it now?
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| Tuesday 27 September 2011 |
Mick Hume
Defend a free press - don’t just guard the Guardian
Yes, the police threat to the liberal newspaper was outrageous – but who invited the authorities to crack down on the press in the first place?
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| Wednesday 7 September 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
The Battle of Cable Street it wasn’t
Dancing around to music while 3,000 policemen prevent right-wingers from marching does not echo the events of 1936.
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| Thursday 1 September 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
How to Prevent academic freedom
Asking university staff to report on students who are ‘vulnerable’ to extremist ideas will only deter debate.
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| Tuesday 16 August 2011 |
Tim Black
Attacking press freedom in the name of privacy
Having made private conduct central to politics, it’s a bit rich for MPs now to slate the press for being obsessed with private peccadilloes.
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| Thursday 4 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The myth of a crazy,
all-powerful PC army
In a speech in Sydney, Brendan O’Neill called on critics of PC to stop playing the victim and to start acting like proper, self-respecting heretics.
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| Wednesday 3 August 2011 |
Tim Black
ASA and Ofcom: you’re not worth it
We don’t need quangos to protect us from ‘misleading’ L’Oreal adverts or bad soap-opera storylines.
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| Tuesday 19 July 2011 |
Mick Hume
‘Of course I support a free press, but…’
All-party support for regulating the media threatens to reverse the historic gains of the struggle for press freedom.
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| Tuesday 12 July 2011 |
Mick Hume
‘You cannot pluck the rose without the thorn’
The death of a free press, the hacking off of investigative journalism - the scandals nobody is talking about.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
Frank Furedi
‘We name and shame the evil tabloid hacks!’
The cultural elite’s crusade against News International is only a more erudite version of the News of the World’s war on perverts.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
Press culture is none of Cameron’s business
An American free-speech campaigner dissects the ‘delusional elitism’ of those wanting to muzzle the tabloids.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
Tim Black
The myth of the feral tabloid reader
Why the political class loves to peddle stories about the tabloids’ evil grip on the masses’ minds.
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| Friday 8 July 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
After the News of the World, who’s safe?
The unprecedented harrying to extinction of a tabloid newspaper is likely to have a chilling effect across the British media.
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| Thursday 7 July 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
What’s really motoring this anti-Murdoch crusade?
What the News of the World is alleged to have done is terrible and indefensible. But the fury about it is being driven by something else.
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| Wednesday 1 June 2011 |
Tim Black
Racist chocolate bar ads? Gimme a break
When offence is in the eye of the beholder, even an advert for a Cadbury's chocolate bar can be deemed hateful.
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| Monday 23 May 2011 |
Tim Black
A demeaning epidemic of injunctionitis
Lord Neuberger’s report on the superinjunctions affair is a reminder that the state doesn't trust us to judge what we read.
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| Wednesday 11 May 2011 |
Tessa Mayes
Post-Mosley, free speech is still the loser
Who needs the ECHR to censor what we talk about when we’ve got our own injunction-happy High Court doing it anyway?
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