Categories for Free Speech
Argentina Quits COP29, Guardian Flounces Off X
The Guardian's flounce off X is just an admission that it lost the argument, says Ben Pile. The liberal retreat to comfy echo chambers coincides with Milei's Argentina quitting COP29. The Blobs are going down.
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Allison Pearson’s Police Ordeal Over ‘Non-Crime Hate Incident’ Shows it’s High Time Free Speech Was Restored
Journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police on Remembrance Sunday over a 'non-crime hate incident' linked to an online post. Law expert Dr Kyriakos N. Kotsoglou says it's high time free speech was restored.
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Kemi Badenoch is That Rare Thing: a Politician Willing to Speak the Truth Whatever the Cost
Kemi Badenoch is that rare thing, says Dr David McGrogan: a politician willing to speak the truth, whatever the cost. She will take the fight to Keir Starmer's Government, and that is a reason for hope.
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Why I Changed My Mind on Trump
In 2015 Jeffrey Tucker was warning about Donald Trump and wasn't impressed with his first term. But in the last three years the full horror of the deep state clampdown on freedom has changed his mind.
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A Reply by the Editors of Aporia to a Hope Not Hate Hit Job
Noah Carl and Bo Winegard respond to a Hope Not Hate hit job on their blog which involved a Guardian piece and a 90-minute documentary on Channel 4. For all the money spent on it, it barely progressed beyond name-calling.
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Leading Political Journalist Says Banning the AfD is “Overdue” and Insists Political Repression is Perfectly Fine When Exercised by a “Constitutional State”
A leading political journalist has said that banning the AfD is "overdue" and insists political repression is perfectly fine when exercised by a "constitutional state". Can these people hear themselves, wonders Eugyppius.
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Baroness Royall, Leading Candidate in Oxford Chancellorship Race, Runs Into Free Speech Row
Baroness Royall, one of the frontrunners in the Oxford Chancellorship race, has run into a free speech row after Alumni for Free Speech wrote to all the candidates asking them to set out their position on the issue.
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Pubs Will Have to Employ ‘Banter Bouncers’ Under Labour’s Plans to ‘Protect’ Workers From Overhearing ‘Offensive’ Conversations
The Employment Rights Bill contains a nasty surprise: a clause requiring employers to 'protect' workers from overhearing conversations between members of the public that might upset them. Get ready for the Equality Act 2.0.
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Police Union Rep Suspended For Telling the Truth
In the Daily Sceptic, a policeman defends the Met Police Federation Chair suspended after telling GB News that some officers are so terrified of being accused of 'discrimination' they're treating minority suspects with kid gloves.
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State-Funded ‘Anti-Hate’ Organisation Run by Islamic Scholar Becomes Germany’s First Official Internet Censor
A state-funded 'anti-hate' organisation run by an Islamic scholar has become Germany's first official internet censor, empowered under the Digital Services Act to all but compel websites to delete the 'fake news' it flags.
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