Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com I have always believed strongly in free speech. So did my university teachers. I recall my professor saying to me: “I might disagree fundamentally with what you say, but I fought in the War for your right to be able to say it”. About a month
Across the entire planet, free speech has surreptitiously been under attack for many years. Slowly but surely, one small chip at a time, the thin end of the wedge has chiseled the tiniest of cracks into a chasm of Grand Canyon proportions where we perch on the edge, pushing back
Both the NZ Herald and the Northland Age published and then memory-holed the below article. At The BFD we do not support censorship or cancel culture so have obtained permission to re-publish the article so that our audience can make up their own minds. The original headline of
Screenshot The BFD Dr Michael Bassett’s column referred to below has been removed from the Northland Age website. Upon review, its unacceptable views did not meet our standards. We apologise for its publication. Northland Age – NZ Herald Suppression continues apace of historical opinions that do not conform to the
Anne I worry about the future of women if we cannot say ‘women have babies’. I’m a woman with XX chromosomes, have grown from girlhood through all life stages to deliver three wonderful babies, breast-fed those babies and given them the best start I possibly could. Nobody knows
Reductio ad absurdum is one of my favourite debating techniques. In a nutshell you disprove your opponent’s argument by showing that if your opponent’s statement were true, it would lead to an absurd conclusion. This technique is not without its kryptonite. And that kryptonite is of course: stupid
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. As the nation continues to grapple with the fallout from the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, prominent members of the media are
Salman Rushdie famously said that without the freedom to offend, free speech doesn’t exist. If the Plod are to be believed, then there is indeed no freedom of speech in Britain any more. Merseyside Police has apologised for claiming “being offensive is an offence” as part of a campaign
Ashley Church israelinstitute.nz In March 1947, US President Harry Truman enacted an Executive Order which required all federal employees to be screened for ‘loyalty’ as a way of rooting out those who would seek to ‘alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means’. The move
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Facebook unfriended all of Australia last week. Locked in a battle with the Federal government over legislation which would force it to pay for links to news publications, it wiped Australian news sources from viewer’s feeds. So when you checked your Facebook feed on February
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org YouTube has not stopped its censorious ways. Now the platform has torched a Newsmax interview with former President Donald Trump. “YouTube took down a newly recorded interview with former President Donald Trump in Google’s latest action against conservatives,” The Epoch Times reported Feb. 20. “A
