Simon Schama urged an audience at Hay over the weekend to stand up for freedom of expression, as his friends Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens did, and not capitulate to moralising censors.
Alas, once again a government has introduced a law to curb free speech and outlaw 'hate'. But if speech is so unpopular that some deem it hateful, that speech is the speech most worth protecting, says Lawrence Krauss.
Martin Amis was a brilliant stylist with a scabrous wit. But, ye gods, save us from the bien-pensant moralising about the Holocaust, nuclear weapons, the environment, Brexit and Trump, says Dr James Alexander.
