Censorship
Wakefield, Labour and cowardice
Enough of the silence and weasel words
Three years of the Free Speech Union
The fight against censorship goes on
My fight for free speech goes on
Or else this precedent could silence dissent
Britain’s blasphemy laws
We must stand up to intimidation
Keep physical books
We have to protect cultural history
I was on trial for praying for free speech
I was acquitted — but I should never have been arrested
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
Free speech: we should try it again
We must sweep aside today’s pervasive fearfulness. Instead we should feel free to offend — and not take offence when others treat us equally robustly
Pounds for your thoughts
Free thought should never cost £100
Criminalising prayer protects no one
Laws against so-called conversion therapy are threatening the freedom of belief
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Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
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Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
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