The concept of 'Legal but harmful' is a sneaky way of trying to restrict free speech and a departure from the fundamental principle of English law, which is that unless something is explicitly prohibited it is permitted.
In a brilliant post on Substack, Ed West points out that Britain is in dire need of more robust legal protections for free speech. We have imported America's censorious, woke ideology, but not its First Amendment.
The reason Hungarian fans boo knee-taking English footballers is because they resent being 're-educated' about racism by a former colonial power with a history of involvement in the slave trade.
The Free Speech Union is hosting a comedy special in association with Comedy Unleashed at the Backyard Comedy on June 29th. Click below for more info, including how to buy tickets.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the tedium of having to deal with vexatious 'fact checks' by eco warriors, Prince Charles's tetchy complaints about Boris and a memorable night at the opera.
Guardian columnists are constantly claiming the free speech crisis is an invention of right-wing culture warriors – until the cancel mob comes for them. Owen Jones is just the latest example.
The most entertaining story of last week was the woke-on-woke bloodbath at the Washington Post, culminating in the dismissal of Felicia Sonmez on Friday. Moral: the Left always ends up eating itself.
Senior Whitehall civil servants are up in arms because Boris has rowed back on a commitment to bribe farmers to grow wildflowers instead of crops. Doesn't he care about the future of the planet?
It isn't just Harry and Meghan – who flew back to California from England last weekend on a private jet – who are climate change hypocrites. You can add Katy Perry, Brooklyn Beckham and Harry Styles to the list.
According to a new report from the Resolution Foundation, working from home has benefited the local economies of the most affluent parts of the country and harmed the most deprived.
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