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Internet censorship is the ultimate curtain call for freedomTuesday February 23, 2010The current drive towards internet censorship, emanating from governments across the world, must be resisted if we are truly to be classed as ‘free’, argues Martin Cullip |
Killing thinking: how political correctness taught us what NOT to sayThursday February 11, 2010Dennis Hayes offers a guide to the arguments that academics, including students, use to kill open debate and critical thought |
Free speech and the court of public opinion: let the people decideThursday February 4, 2010John Terry’s “crime” was not cheating on his wife, says Suzy Dean, but trying to gag the press using a “super-injunction” |
Death of free speech: Is Britain becoming the censorship capital of the world?Monday December 21, 2009Britain has a reputation as the home of free speech, writes Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail. Now it is developing a reputation as the country where free speech is being steadily suppressed |
'No platform' is no platformed: but so is debateMonday October 26, 2009Dennis Hayes reflects on how debate and protest have become pantomime versions of what they once were |
The post-politics of emotional correctnessWednesday February 25, 20092009 got off to a bad start and looks like being a bleak year for freedom of thought, or for any thought at all, argues Dennis Hayes |
Bonfire of inanitiesThursday February 12, 2009How much literature and art never sees the light of day because of the nervous consensus “Thou shalt not offend”?, asks Shirley Dent |
Fighting talk: taking liberties with libertyMonday December 15, 2008Dennis Hayes, Citizen Number 127659, wonders where the struggle went in the “struggle” for freedom of speech |
Time to no platform 'no platform'Friday October 31, 2008Not before time there’s a growing backlash against the NUS thought police, say Dennis Hayes and Richard Reynolds |
Taboo or not taboo, that is the questionFriday March 28, 2008Blasphemy may be dead but it has been replaced by a new form of intolerant, radical censorship, says Claire Fox |