News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
Seven British Nobel prize winner have joined the backlash from academics over plans to scrap free speech laws tackling cancel culture at universities.
The Free Speech Union has formally begun its judicial review of the Government's decision to 'pause' the Freedom of Speech Act, naming Prof Arif Ahmed, the Govt's 'free speech tsar' as an interested party.
A Labour Government source has dismissed the new (and "paused") Freedom of Speech Act as a "hate speech charter". Free speech in Britain has rarely been in more peril, says David Abulafia.
With her merciless slaying of the Freedom of Speech Act, Bridget Phillipson has shown herself to be a far more brutal political combatant than the enfeebled Tories. If you want to win the culture war, this is how to do it.
Arif Ahmed, the Government's new 'free speech tsar', says he'll defend all views and is not intending to take sides in the culture war or promote the views of the Government.
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