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.
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.
Kathleen Stock’s former university, the University of Sussex, has been fined a record £585,000 after it was found to have "failed to uphold" freedom of speech and academic freedom as a result of its transgender policy.
Blasphemy laws are a dangerous road to walk down, as religious offence should never trump the vital need for free speech, no matter who gets upset, warns Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
Over 500 academics, including Richard Dawkins, Kathleen Stock and Sir Niall Fergusson, have written a letter to Bridget Phillipson asking her to implement the Freedom of Speech Act in full.
Where did woke come from? Eric Kaufmann says it's not from Marxism but from something more visceral for the Left: the sacralisation of 'disadvantaged' minority groups and an overactive sense of guilt.
A new investigation by the Free Speech Union has revealed that local authority-run libraries are suppressing books by gender critical authors and energetically promoting ones by trans right activists.
According to the latest British Social Attitudes report, prejudice towards trans people has almost doubled in the last three years. This proves the terror tactics of the trans Taliban aren't working.
Why have universities departed so much from Cardinal Newman's guiding idea? Professor James Alexander says it's because they have become secularised, instrumentalised, centralised and infected by ideology.
An Oxford College has issued a "trans inclusion statement" threatening students with expulsion if they "misgender" their trans peers. Sounds like a case for the Free Speech Union!
