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Monday 30 January 2012	Liberties


Gabrielle Shiner The misogyny of the anti-Page 3 brigade The prudes trying to strip the tabloids of topless pics belittle women far more than any male reader could.

Wednesday 25 January 2012
Mick Hume The Leveson Inquiry is the enemy of a free press Now it's out: Lord Justice Leveson wants quasi-state regulation - in the name of 'press freedom'.

Wednesday 25 January 2012
Sally Millard How about butting out of family life? With its latest guilt-tripping wheeze, the anti-smoking lobby seems intent on turning our children against us.

Tuesday 24 January 2012
Theresa Clifford A mega attack on internet freedom You don’t have to be a fan of the juvenile people behind Megaupload to be worried by the crackdown against it.

Tuesday 24 January 2012
Brendan O’Neill ‘This is becoming an anti-tabloid witch-hunt’ Read the transcript of CBC’s interview with Brendan O’Neill about Leveson, lies and press freedom.

Monday 16 January 2012
Manick Govinda Licensed to censor performance art By treating adults like children, the 2003 Licensing Act is being used to undermine the freedom of both artists and audiences.

Tuesday 3 January 2012
Rob Lyons Welcome to the Nagging Health Service Some health fanatics want everyone from GPs to hospital porters to lecture to us about our lifestyles.

Tuesday 3 January 2012
Brendan O’Neill Using tabloid tactics to slay the tabloids The Guardian's retraction of the Charlotte Church story brings to 40 the number of anti-Murdoch articles it has had to correct.

Tuesday 22 November 2011
Kevin Rooney Celtic fans: you’re not singing anymore In what country was a 17-year-old recently arrested for singing an outlawed song? Iran? China? No, it was the UK.

Wednesday 16 November 2011
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.

Wednesday 2 November 2011
Nathalie Rothschild No more room for ‘the huddled masses’ While New York celebrates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, America shows little desire to welcome immigrants.

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.

Thursday 13 October 2011
Nick Thorne From snap happy to ban happy The farce of a dad who was told not to photograph his daughter shows that we’re not always better safe than sorry.

Wednesday 21 September 2011
Patrick Hayes Taking the liberal out of the Lib Dems Telling families how to raise their kids, imprisoning journalists and banning Page 3 – welcome to the Illiberal Party.

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.

Wednesday 24 August 2011
Tim Black Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a modern-day scapegoat In the past, backward villagers would invest a goat with the sins of the village and then cast it out. Feminists tried the same trick with DSK.

Thursday 21 July 2011
Rob Lyons Why the state should butt out of our personal lives It is a sign of the times that the only debate we seem to have about nudging is ‘does it work?’ rather than ‘what gives them the right?’.

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.

Monday 27 June 2011
Frank Furedi An unholy marriage of snobbery and snideyness The cultural elite’s support for gay marriage is more about distinguishing themselves from homophobic plebs than fighting for equal rights.

Wednesday 8 June 2011
Patrick Hayes Is this just ‘ID cards without the cards’? The Lib-Cons' proposal for an Identity Assurance Service confirms that privacy counts for little in the corridors of power.
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