The founder of Mumsnet has revealed she was blacklisted by Barclays and Ocado and branded a "bigot" for standing up for women's rights to access single-sex spaces, as she welcomes the Supreme Court's trans ruling.
People are entitled to hold private conversations in pubs, provided they don't offend staff and make them feel "unsafe", Government Minister Lilian Greenwood has said, as she defended Labour's 'banter ban'.
Peers in the House of Lords will attempt to block the 'banter ban' in Labour’s workers' rights bill when it returns to Parliament later this month to safeguard freedom of speech and the British way of life.
Freedom of speech is being replaced by its antithesis, the 'right to participate', says Dr David McGrogan. This is where the battle lines are drawn as conservatives push back against the authoritarian tide.
German journalist David Bendels has been sentenced to seven months' probation for a meme poking fun at the Interior Minister's lack of commitment to free speech. Irony is truly dead, murdered by 'liberal' authoritarianism.
Why are anti-woke Rangers fans given lifetime stadium bans but pro-Hamas Celtic fans get off much more lightly? It's because supporting Palestine is part of our elites' luxury beliefs, says Dr David McGrogan.
The ban on Lucy Connolly being permitted temporary release from jail to see her young daughter and sick husband is unprecedented, says David Shipley. Even murderers get that. The instruction must have come from higher up.
In authoritarian Britain, police are arresting more than 12,000 people each year for words that cause offence – over 30 arrests per day. Andrew Doyle has compiled a list of some of the state's known victims.
A woman has been prosecuted for holding a sign saying "here to talk, if you want to" outside a UK abortion clinic. That is not harassment and should not be crime, says Laura Perrins. We must have the right to persuade.
Anti-abortion campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt, whose case was championed by the White House over free speech concerns, has been convicted of breaching a 'buffer zone' outside an abortion clinic and ordered to pay £20,000.
