Free Speech

An Egyptian anti-Christianity activist should not have been imprisoned

Or else this precedent could silence dissent

We have to protect cultural history

I was acquitted — but I should never have been arrested

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

Disruption is enabled and peaceful activism banned

Laws against so-called conversion therapy are threatening the freedom of belief

Silencing Bridgen for a poor choice of words is the real insult to the victims of totalitarianism

Britain is now a country where you can be arrested for what’s in your head