The Cold Truth – Britain’s Grim Winter’s Tale
13 January 2025
by Sallust
News Round-Up
13 January 2025
The Australian Government's proposed misinformation bill may be "dead in the water" following significant pushback from opposition Senators in the upper house of the federal Parliament, says Frederick Attenborough.
Seven British Nobel prize winner have joined the backlash from academics over plans to scrap free speech laws tackling cancel culture at universities.
Sick of woke censorship? You ain't seen nothing yet. With Labour coming to power in a landslide, the Free Speech Union is bracing for an all-out assault on our precious freedom of expression.
Leading free speech writers association PEN America has cancelled a major literary festival and awards ceremony amidst a boycott by the pro-Palestine far Left in a further sign of the death of irony.
We look over the border to Scotland with a sense of alarm and disgust at the extreme censorship now being imposed via the Hate Crime Act. But speech is already scarcely freer in England, says Ella Whelan.
There has never been a class of people who are freer to express their opinions than Left-leaning academics in 2023. So why do they think the Government is trying to censor them, asks Dr David McGrogan.
The Free Speech Union has shared exclusive case studies with GB News showing that equity, diversity and inclusion policies are being invoked to punish employees for exercising their right to lawful free speech.
In this week’s episode of the Free Speech Union podcast 'That's Debatable!', Ben Jones and Tom Harris explore hot topics including the problems with police training and eBooks being censored after you've bought them.
Police forces are failing to train officers on the importance of free speech while teaching them obscure pronouns, according to a report from the Free Speech Union into the "free speech crisis" in British policing.
The free speech crisis in universities and wider society is very real, and it's not just those on the 'Right' being caught in its censorious snares, senior academics have been told.
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