How to solve a problem like free speech? Even the tsar will struggle
University students need to be exposed to different views - but even the government doesn't seem to know where to…
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Extinction Rebellion makes a splash on ‘Fleet Street’
Not before plastering the wrong building in green paint.
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What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gets wrong about free speech
The author says she prefers to read non-fiction because she senses so many novelists holding back due to “social censure”.…
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The Philip Pullman affair shows social media is where good arguments go to die
The author of His Dark Materials has spoken out against “gesture politics” – but he too adds fuel to the…
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Support free speech and you must support the right to criticise the monarchy
If the Queen was custodian of a free society, we should defend the right to protest against the institution she…
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France and the fatwa
The attack on Salman Rushdie has exposed the deepening fault lines in French culture.
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Storytelling must prevail in a world in which democracy is under threat
The attack on Salman Rushdie was not an isolated incident, but connected to the political and cultural changes we are…
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How the fatwa against Salman Rushdie changed British identity
In 1989 a new global conflict began that still defines our time: a war of power, wealth and dogma.
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