Freddie Attenborough

Freddie Attenborough is the Free Speech Union's Communications Office. You can find him on Substack here.

The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes

Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD

The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power

An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains

The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression

A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”

The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial

It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people

Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes