The notion that we have free speech in Western democracies is fast becoming a fallacy. Free speech is something that our politicians love to tout and showpiece, yet when you really get down to it, when free speech suddenly jumps out of the box and takes on new dimensions, the first thing our leaders do

No, really, censorship of the internet really isn’t a free speech issue. The Culture Secretary says so. “There is content that should just not be available to be viewed. That is my view. Absolutely categorical. This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply there

Good old BBC, you can always rely on them for a bit of revisionism.  According to one of the BBC’s tame gardeners, the 1600s was the best time to be British. At first I was a little confused on account of there not being a British nation until 1707, then I thought perhaps she was being

As a libertarian, I have a commitment to free speech, something seen in the past few days on this site. However, is everything an issue of free speech? Here we have the same old religious dispute again: A religious group's fight to place a monument in a public park is at the center of a Supreme Court dispute over governments' power to limit speech. Pleasant Grove City, Utah, is asking th...

A US Supreme Court ruling rightly argues that all speech should be free, not just speech that is ‘socially beneficial’.

Some time ago I posted about freedom of speech. I have just read this article on the UKIP website by Gerard Batten, MEP for London which goes into more detail about the dangers of the European Arrest Warrant.

I see that Irish President Mary McAleese has been indluging her hobby of historical revisionism again, this time claiming that tens of thousands of Irishmen joined the British Army in an attempt to avoid poverty rather than out of a sense of partiotism. I'm with Lord Maginnis on this when he wrily observes.... "The whole idea that men joined the Army to keep their families off the bread line ...

It is worth returning to Channel 4’s decision to have President Ahmadinejad deliver its alternative Christmas message. Predictably, those who have attacked the decision have been accused of opposition to free speech—just look at some of the comments on the Skimmer’s post. But this criticism misses a crucial distinction: there is a difference between allowing free speech and provi...

From the International Free Press Society website: Below is the text of the address that Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders was invited to deliver at the House of Lords on Thursday, February 12, 2009. Instead of making this address and showing his film Fitna, he was detained by UK immigration officials on his arrival at London Heathrow airport and sent back to the Netherlands as a risk to “...

A disgraceful piece of anti-Semitic historical revisionism appears in today’s Independent newspaper, which tries to rehabilitate the Slovenian Nazis, or Domobrantsvo/ (Slowenische Landeswehr) as misunderstood patriots, betrayed by the British. The Domobrantsvo are shown here in the picture swearing an oath of allegiance on Hitler’s birthday in 1945. Jugoslavia had emerged as a multi-et...