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Tim Black
Defending the right to mock JM Keynes
Why on earth is historian Niall Ferguson being dragged over the coals for having a pop at a dead economist?
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| Monday 22 April 2013 |
Tim Black
Beware the broadband bobbies
The police may have dropped an investigation into Paris Brown, but the clampdown on free speech online continues.
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| Wednesday 10 April 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
The NUS’s prissy war on ‘lad culture’
Not content with trying to control what students say, the NUS wants to police how they play, too.
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| Thursday 4 April 2013 |
Mick Hume
Philpott fire: Shamelessly exploiting dead children
The conviction of Mick Philpott for killing six of his kids has sparked a shroud-waving contest between enemies of welfare and a free press.
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| Wednesday 20 March 2013 |
Mick Hume
10 random lies about the press freedom stitch-up
The shabby deal to impose a new press regulator by royal charter has sparked an outpouring of myths, misrepresentation and mendacity.
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| Tuesday 19 March 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
Don’t blame Hacked Off for this crisis of liberty
Screeching at Hugh Grant is a displacement activity for intellectuals who can’t explain or reverse the historic corrosion of press freedom.
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| Thursday 14 March 2013 |
Mick Hume
Stitching up press freedom behind closed doors
Labour and Hacked Off are now prepared to hold the political system to ransom and rewrite the UK constitution in order to tame the press.
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| Thursday 28 February 2013 |
Mick Hume
With Leveson and libel, reforms are not enough
The Lords’ attempt to sneak a ‘Leveson law’ through the back door shows the need for a more principled fight for freedom of expression.
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| Thursday 21 February 2013 |
Mick Hume
The Met: the armed wing of the Leveson Inquiry
The escalating police campaign against UK tabloid journalists is a PR stunt that threatens the future of investigative reporting.
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| Thursday 21 February 2013 |
Stuart Waiton
Treating football fans like vermin
A football cop’s admission that he sees his job as ‘pest control’ sheds light on the elite’s attitude to fans.
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| Thursday 21 February 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
How press freedom is now a ‘very extreme view’
A UK video journalist tells spiked why he is fighting orders to hand over protest footage to the police.
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| Wednesday 13 February 2013 |
Mick Hume
The ‘test’ for press freedom should not be set by lords or victims
The idea that the Tories’ proposals for press regulation are ‘too soft’ turns truth on its head.
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| Monday 11 February 2013 |
Sean Collins
Israel-bashers: masters of the double standard
Radicals who protest against the censorship of anti-Israel academics cheer with hypocritical glee when Israeli academics are banned.
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| Tuesday 5 February 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
Giving free speech a hammering
It’s time to lift the wig on all the libertarian posturing: judge-sanctioned free speech is not free at all.
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| Thursday 17 January 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
Banged up for
banging on?
The arrest of an EDL leader for ranting against Islam on Facebook should worry anyone interested in freedom.
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| Tuesday 15 January 2013 |
Julie Burchill
Hey trannies,
cut it out
Where do dicks in terrible wigs get off lecturing us natural-born women about not being quite feministic enough?
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| Friday 21 December 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Apocalypse now for free speech?
Mayan End Times may not have materialised, but if we’re not careful free speech could be consumed by hellfires.
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| Thursday 13 December 2012 |
Angus Kennedy
Why it’s wrong to censor Holocaust deniers
History, including the history of the Holocaust, should be determined in open, public debate, not in the courts.
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| Tuesday 11 December 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
Why we must tolerate hate
To punish racist vandals more harshly than run-of-the-mill vandals is to veer dangerously close towards instituting thoughtcrime.
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| Monday 19 November 2012 |
Tom Bailey
Taking a match to freedom of speech
Filming yourself burning a poppy might not be the most sophisticated political critique, but it shouldn’t be a crime.
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