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.
Has American pressure on Labour over free speech paid off? An unexpectedly robust statement about academic freedom from Bridget Phillipson this week suggests it may well have, says Julian Mann.
If European states don't want to be treated as enemies of the US they're going to have to retreat from the war they've been waging on behalf of Washington's old regime and disarm their censorship machines, says N S Lyons.
It's taken three years for Putin to get a few miles inside a run-down country like Ukraine, but the Establishment still pushes the idea that he can roll over the rest of Europe. Is he really our enemy, asks James Leary.
Friedrich Merz has warned of the end of NATO as the incoming German Chancellor is set to defy Washington by teaming up with the losing Left-wing parties, including the extreme Greens, and freezing out surging AfD.
Britain is at risk of tariffs from Donald Trump unless it eases its restriction on free speech, Nigel Farage has warned, adding pressure on Keir Starmer to reform the Online Safety Act.
Listening to the US Vice President's speech in Munich, Prof James Allan says he found himself muttering "my kingdom for a J.D. Vance" – because he can't see one in the rest of the conservative anglosphere right now.
In light of JD Vance's stirring speech in Munich, we're republishing Ramesh Thakur's article from July, when Trump announced Vance as his VP pick – and thus spelled the long-overdue end of the neoconservative movement.
"There is no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions and the conscience that guide your very own people. If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you." — JD Vance
US Vice President J.D. Vance has slammed European leaders for "criminalising" free speech, opening the immigration floodgates and brutally clamping down on dissent in his landmark address to the Munich Security Conference.
