News Round-Up
19 May 2024
by Will Jones
BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
Following similar label changes to U.S. public broadcasters, the BBC has been designated "Government Funded Media" on its Twitter profile. The Beeb’s leadership is now pushing back against Elon Musk’s decision.
Twitter sparked outrage among bloggers by restricting Substack links on the giant social media platform. Jack Watson, a 14 year-old who uses Substack to blog about his football team, explains how disruptive this was for him.
We're often told that cancel culture doesn't exist. But the effort to censor Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death suggests it does and that being the greatest artist of the 20th Century offers no protection.
The Scottish Government's plans for a ban on LGBT 'conversion therapy' will criminalise parents for "simply trying to help their children navigate normal adolescence", church leaders have warned.
14 year-old Jack Watson writes that sometimes he wishes Orwell did not write 1984, as it seems to have become a manual and not just a novel.
A new survey has found that younger academics are less likely to agree that it's never acceptable to deplatform a speaker using violence. This suggests the academy is becoming less supportive of free speech over time.
Why is it that in contemporary Britain, the police will arrest you for expressing orthodox Christian beliefs, but are more than happy to enforce Islamic blasphemy laws?
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.
What Gary Lineker should or should not be allowed to say matters not a jot when set against the real scandal: that our national broadcaster could not care less about fairly representing both sides to contentious debates.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Donald Trump's forthcoming arrest, the British police's preference for wokery over free speech and the glorious implosion of the SNP.
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