The Government Failed and So Now?
They failed at Bondi so they are punishing the people.
Censorship
This Is Evidence of Control Creep
How the Department of Internal Affairs is building a social media surveillance regime before parliament has spoken.
The Price of Silence
How money, mimicry, and rear are eroding free inquiry worldwide.
A Dumb and Repressive Game Part 3
Banning symbols and slogans. Allowing groups such as neo-Nazis and other extremists to out themselves is the preferred option, so society can be more informed and aware of their presence and numbers.
This Is Another Academic Freedom Case
How exactly I was supposed to incorporate ‘Māori and Pasifika perspectives’ into my courses on ancient Greece is still something of a mystery to me. But the important thing about these expectations is that they seem to fly in the face of academic freedom.
On Rising Above the Parapet
Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas – Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
The Left Is Clearly a Greater Threat To Free Speech
The evidence from Cambridge, and from Britain as a whole, points in one direction. It is the left – not the right – that poses the greater threat to free expression today.
Free Speech in the Digital Age
By regulating online speech and expanding digital ID systems, governments are turning the natural right to free expression into a licensed activity.
E-Karen Thinks She Is Above the Law
A sinister insight into the illegal machinations of the Long March left.
Media Freedom… if We Can Keep It!
‘Free speech for me but not for thee’ – using government force to shut down unwanted voices – will result in free speech for no one. And once it is gone, it will not be easy to get back.
Free Jimmy Lai
A good man is going to die in a Hong Kong prison for believing in freedom and democracy. His name is Jimmy Lai.
Government Orders Deletion of UK’s Court Archive
There are concerns that the government is fleeing from transparency over failings in the justice system amid a string of murders and sex attacks by asylum seekers.
Regulating Speech Is the Slipperiest of Slopes
Steve Holland Broadcaster, commentator, media consultant, libertarian and former mayor of the Mornington Peninsula. The Commonwealth Parliament, powered by a collusion of both major parties, has rammed through the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Act 2026. This law, cynically marketed as an antisemitism measure following the