Freedom of speech
Books Do Furnish a Little Freedom
‘The cover of my new book was likely to shock Pakistani sensibilities but my local book store owner said he’d keep it under the counter with the Salman Rushdie novels. Not the worst company.’
China’s Great Firewall
The “Golden Shield Project” is blocking access to great swathes of the web, but Chinese netizens are fighting back
A Victory for Free Speech
The government was roundly defeated last night on its attempt to remove a “free speech” defence from the law banning homophobic hatred.
Guardian Gagged from Reporting Parliament (And to hell with the Bill of Rights)
The Guardian says this morning that it “has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.”
Liberty Hall
Free Word works to protect and promote free expression in a number of languages
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts