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freedom of speech Articles

Hope for Turkey

Erdogan needs to go —Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was once reported as saying that democracy for him was like a bus ride: when he reached his stop, he would get off. In recent years, he has often seemed to be edging closer and closer towards that stop....

Protecting, not undermining, our rights and freedoms

Events in Paris have been shocking and tragic. However, for those involved with protecting us from terror, they were far from unexpected. The continuing Islamist terror threat is real and known. In the United Kingdom there have been 140 individuals convicted of...

Where are today’s Voltaires?

I detest all forms of racism, sexism and bigotry but have no desire for the state to police the opinions of racists, sexists and bigots. I hold, perhaps naively, to George Orwell’s maxim that liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they do not...

Averting the death of our online freedom

Disconnection of families for copyright infringement, the death of open wifi, court actions to block ‘infringing’ websites: our basic rights, to fair treatment in the law, to a fair trial, and freedom of speech are all threatened by a Bill aiming to reduce copyright infringement.