The Nonsense of This ‘Banter Ban’
Some colleagues and I will be proposing various amendments to the Employment Rights Bill in the Lords in an effort to scrap the ‘banter ban’.
Free Speech
Free Speech Is Essential to Our Human Dignity
Censorship is often less about making the world a safer place for minorities and more about indulging our own capacity for cruelty.
You Can’t Be Offensive in Here! This Is an Offensive Exhibition!
Cartoonist exhibition cancelled because someone might not like it.
The Assault on Substack Takes Shape
The real goal is to shut Substack (as we’ve known it) down – which must mean the truth bombs its correspondents are launching every day are starting to hit too close to key targets.
Trump Speaks Truth to Power
Over the last 15 years, the institutional left has aggressively censored and destroyed their critics. As a result, many people – at least those with something to lose – have gone silent. Then came Trump.
This Is a Warning
Comedy plays a more important role in society: the ability to bring people together. Nothing brings people together like laughter.
What Is a Liberal Democracy?
If we excuse the erosion of these fundamental freedoms, we have learned nothing about history. Empires rise and fall, and so do nation states and their freedoms. They are often hard fought and easily lost.
FSU Defends Teacher Under Investigation for Comment
The Teaching Council has yet to announce whether it will pursue an investigation, but the case has already sparked a broader debate about freedom of expression and professional accountability within the education sector.
Slippery Slopes and When to Be Concerned
Policies that are subjective, undefined and leave room for interpretation or constant expansion deserve greater scrutiny as these are the ones that become slippery slopes.
Our Submission on This Proposed Paper
Family First’s submission on the Law Commission’s consultation around ‘hate crime’.
‘Banter Ban’ for UK Pubs
The measure I’m most concerned about is clause 18, which will amend the Equality Act to force employers to “take all reasonable steps” to insulate their staff from “harassment” by “third parties”.
Trump Compares Starmer’s Britain to Communist China
If governments can compel tech companies to break encryption, digital privacy risks becoming a privilege reserved for the ideologically compliant – not an inalienable right.
Comment of the Week
Politicians aren’t doing their jobs properly and will keep doing so as long as we keep letting them off the hook.
‘Hate Speech’ Bans Become a Weapon of the Powerful
Germany’s prosecutions of meme-posters provide a chilling example of what happens when governments dictate what counts as ‘hate.’
The Right Not to Vote
Voting should be a right afforded to all adult citizens, but it should never be an obligation.