To what standard of free speech should we hold Twitter?
Counter-speech is the more appropriate answer to concerns about Twitter’s and other social media’s echochamber
- 5 June 2013
Post-Woolwich arrests violate human rights principles
While we don't yet know what those arrested in reaction the Woolwich atrocity have said, it is concerning how police acting on words can serve to assist the Islamists' end goal
- 31 May 2013
Free speech should not be snuffed out
Controversial blogger and prolific tweeter Old Holborn is being interviewed by police. This demonstrates exactly why free speech has to be defended
- 19 April 2013
Taking offense: The right to free speech
If people want a free society and free speech, they must defend the right to offend
- 8 February 2013
The lunacy of international blasphemy laws
Whilst it is not wise to deliberately cause offence, some people quite simply need to develop thicker skins and grow up
- 26 November 2012
Baroness Ashton - steering EU towards blasphemy laws?
The right not to be offended has no place in a democracy. Nor do blasphemy laws
- 19 October 2012
Over 70 percent of abuses carried out on journalists are committed by Venezuelan government officials
Over 70 percent of abuses carried out on journalists are committed by Venezuelan government officials, says the General Secretary of the National Union of Press Workers
- 16 October 2012
Innocence of Muslims: A Review
Liberals used to mock conservatives for worrying that violent and sexually explicit movies could have an impact on audiences - now they don't question it.
- 16 September 2012
The Brussels Diary: John Terry, Candidate Assessment and more...
Another busy week between Surrey, London and Brussels, capped off with some good news, but with the usual measure of EU lunacy between...
- 13 July 2012
To protect freedom of speech, we need to do more than just reform our libel laws
It is high time we rolled back the culture of offence and reaffirmed our commitment to that most fundamental of rights - freedom of speech
- 18 June 2012
The left’s Orwellian censorship campaign
It's little wonder that today's progressives reject Evelyn Beatrice Hall's noble paraphrasing of Voltaire - the success of the left-wing socio-political agenda relies upon deliberate suppression
- 2 April 2012
The European Court of Human Rights versus freedom of expression
The glaring discrepancy between the Court’s invention of new rights nowhere to be found in the ECHR and its hostility towards free speech underscores the urgent need for reform
- 21 February 2012
Charlie Hebdo's War: when satirising Muhammad prompted terrorism (again)
Amongst other lessons, this sorry episode has highlighted the continual disillusionment that exists in our media and political class when it comes to dealing with Islamic fundamentalism
- 11 November 2011
Free speech and the rule of law: the red lines
Extremists often hide behind the Western ideal of 'freedom of speech' - but does this give them the freedom to hate and incite violence?
- 3 June 2011
Latest on the blog
- NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
- Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less
- Oregon woman raped after police refuse to send out response unit
- Palestinian jailed for Facebook like
- 'Muslim Patrol' vigilantes attempt to control London streets
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