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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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| Thursday 8 November 2012 |
Mick Hume
Defending the press as an unruly mess
In the debate about statutory-backed regulation, many on all sides appear to have accepted the myth that the UK press is too free.
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| Wednesday 7 November 2012 |
Kevin Rooney
Football fans need free speech, too
A man has been jailed for singing a song that mocks a religious leader, yet liberty campaigners have said nothing.
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| Monday 29 October 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
A police state created by anti-fascists
In their enthusiasm to clamp down on ‘hate speech’, anti-fascists have become an unofficial arm of the state.
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| Tuesday 23 October 2012 |
Mick Hume
In defence of ‘shameless anti-Leveson propaganda’
As many liberal journalists and ‘hackademics’ desert the cause, it is time to take a stand for the freedom of the press to be an unruly mess.
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| Tuesday 23 October 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
The Twittermob is watching you, too
The twitch-hunt of far-right nutjob Nick Griffin over one daft tweet has frightening implications for us all.
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| Thursday 11 October 2012 |
Tom Bailey
The banker-bashing battle of Brick Lane
A graffitied mural on a London street certainly looks anti-Semitic, but the calls to ban it are backward too.
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| Tuesday 9 October 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
It shouldn’t be a crime to hate the Old Bill
Convicting a man for wearing an anti-cop t-shirt shows how skewed the balance between state and citizen has become.
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| Thursday 4 October 2012 |
Tim Black
The ASA: still insulting our intelligence
The Advertising Standards Authority is back, and this time it is bigger, fatter and even more condescending.
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| Monday 1 October 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
Sacrificing free speech to the heckler’s veto
The defacement of anti-Muslim ads on the New York subway was not an act of free speech - it was an act of censorship of offensive views.
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| Monday 1 October 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Anti-fascists are killing free speech
Activists who call on the state to arrest and imprison 'fascists' for their speech crimes should look up irony in the dictionary.
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| Thursday 20 September 2012 |
Tim Black
Capturing the moment the royals became slebs
Those grainy pics of a naked Kate Middleton tell a striking story about the celebrification of the Windsors.
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| Tuesday 18 September 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
What’s motoring this ‘Muslim rage’?
The Islamic world’s fury over a YouTube film speaks to something profound: the hollowing-out of the politics of state and diplomacy.
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| Tuesday 18 September 2012 |
Sean Collins
Giving the green light to grievance
The Obama administration seems to see free speech as a bigger problem than attacks on its overseas embassies.
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| Thursday 6 September 2012 |
Mick Hume
Leveson: drawing up the battlelines
Mick Hume, author of a new book on press freedom, says questioning of the Leveson Inquiry is in danger of being too little, too late.
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| Tuesday 4 September 2012 |
Tim Black
Stop trying to lance the Boyle
Frankie Boyle’s comedy of offence is a byproduct of our censorious ‘You Can't Say That!’ culture.
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