Why have students turned their backs on free speech? According to an excellent piece in UnHerd by Matthew Goodwin, it's a combination of generational change, victimhood culture and the marketisation of universities.
A new poll reveals students want less free speech on campus, not more, with 39% believing students' unions should ban all speakers that cause offence and 76% wanting to 'get rid of' controversial statues and memorials.
Elon Must has fired the authors of an open letter criticising his leadership of SpaceX. But isn't he supposed to be pro-free speech? The NY Post's Karol Markowicz has written a column explaining why that's a red herring.
In a brilliant post on Substack, Ed West points out that Britain is in dire need of more robust legal protections for free speech. We have imported America's censorious, woke ideology, but not its First Amendment.
Cancel culture has “benefits” and white people "have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism”, academics at almost 100 UK universities have been told as part of an anti-racism course.
Not only is the BBC refusing to quote the words that have sparked the latest Muslim 'blasphemy' bust up (on the specious grounds that they are "offensive") but it won't even entrust its audience with the general gist.
Watch my interview with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster about the risks to free speech posed by the Online Safety Bill. We need to wake up to this threat before it's too late.
The US, UK and 60 other countries have signed a sweeping “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” which commits to bolstering "resilience to misinformation” and censoring “harmful” content.
Twitter is poised to accept Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company after the free speech-loving entrepreneur unveiled a $46.5 billion financing package over the weekend.
Watching the woke Twitter echo chamber melt down over the prospect of the world's richest libertarian taking charge of their safe space has been a sight to behold.
