David Theobald I am not a lawyer and the extensive professional training I had earlier in life was in a totally different field of endeavour. During this, I learnt that detail was incredibly important but only if laid on top of a thorough understanding of basic principles. And I then
Redline Information Satire The Committee of Disobedient Women has intercepted an email from Dr Emma Eejut, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Jan Thomas. Dear Jan, Thank you for your courageous move. I think 10 pages of blether** should tie any of the students game
Talk is cheap but ACT leader David Seymour has put his words into action. An organised group of Trans activists has bullied and twice now, deplatformed a feminist women’s rights group, preventing them from holding a feminist event with an overseas speaker. Initially the feminist event was going to
UK: Tommy Robinson in court after being sued by Syrian schoolboy for libel
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We have written previously on The BFD about Massey University’s recently announced free speech (snort!) policy and rules. Sadly, just like George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth which was actually the Ministry of Propaganda, their free speech is anything but free. Stephen Franks writes that “Massey Council has doubled
UCLA-Berkeley was the home of the modern free-speech movement. Now, it’s the home of its death. Not a natural death, either, but a murder in the first degree. Berkeley has been the site of violent riots by left-wing extremists intent on shutting down speaking events they don’t like.
NZCPR.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Late last month the Minister of Justice announced
The whole point of “tolerance” is we have to tolerate what we sometimes feel is intolerable – there is no virtue otherwise!
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As I recently wrote for The BFD, the Australian media currently make a big song-and-dance about “freedom”. By which, of course, they mean their freedom. With typical self-conceit, the media have conflated their interests with the country as a whole. Like the self-obsessed elites of Hollywood, the legacy media are
Press Release: ACT Party Massey creates ‘safe spaces’, protects feelings not speech “Massey University’s new free speech policy shows it is more concerned with protecting the feelings of a small number of students and creating safe spaces for them than it is with defending a central pillar of Western
Massey University has killed free speech, and now they are burying the body under a mountain of paperwork that I call the Massey Manifesto. Massey University really, really REALLY don’t want speech to be free on their campus. Any event organiser who wants to have a speech event on
YouTube recently removed this Daily Signal video because of one sentence Dr. Cretella, a pediatrician and executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, said about transgender issues and children. YouTube told The Daily Signal that Dr. Cretella’s remark violated a YouTube speech policy. Let’s be clear: By
PA Pundits – International Tony Perkins “Talk with teens about possible regret.” That’s what the American Academy of Pediatrics says about tattoos and body piercings. But when it comes to giving a girl who thinks she’s a boy a double mastectomy, the same organization thinks parents should “respect” their
Sky News host Rita Panahi says “speaking out comes at a cost when the bulk of the media doesn’t like what you’re saying”. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
