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Don’t Boycott Ed Sheeran or Macklemore Over Free Palestine, Heckle Them Instead
Somewhere along the line, our culture lost its funny bone and its thick skin. We swapped friendly sparring for moral panic, tribalism, and a demand for…
Oct 3
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Albie Amankona
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Five Lessons For Better Debate
I’m a market libertarian against the EU who dislikes state nudging. I still learned plenty from left-leaning, Remain-voting LSE behavioural scientist…
Sep 23
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Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA
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Ed Sheeran Has The Right To Remain Silent
We should be appalled by a culture that makes dishonesty – to ourselves and our politics – the safest course.
Sep 22
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Jack Rowlett
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Free Speech For Me And Not For Thee: The Red Lines In Free Expression?
Ahead of Battle of Ideas festival on 17 and 18 October in London, festival co-convenor Alastair Donald outlines the issues informing the keynote debate…
Sep 10
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Alastair Donald
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If Kanye West Is Too Offensive for Britain, Then So Is Valentina Gomez
Once the state starts picking and choosing whose speech is beyond the pale, the principle is already gone. What remains is judgement, shaped by…
Apr 9
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Albie Amankona
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Britain's Free Speech Frankenstein
Legislation controlling speech in the United Kingdom has increasingly resembled Frankenstein's monster. There is a better way.
Oct 10, 2025
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Liam Shearer
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Debating Matters More Than Ever: The Murder of Charlie Kirk
If a Christian conservative can be shot for expressing Christian conservative views, tomorrow a socialist can be killed for espousing Marx, and a…
Oct 2, 2025
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Josh Cheshire
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Book Club: J.S. Mill - On Liberty
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign". What does Mill's insights mean for the radically different world that we…
Aug 12, 2025
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Harry Richer
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Immigration, integration and social cohesion
Crime, culture and immigration: we must uphold justice and the principle of equal treatment before the law, reject racism and collective guilt, and…
Jun 13, 2025
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Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA
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Love of country, for good and ill
We can have too much of a good thing: nationalism becomes militant and dangerous. Legitimate love for our country is rightly tempered by respect for…
Feb 26, 2025
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Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA
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Free speech, justice and the perils of state overreach
In a free society, the police ought to have neither the powers nor the priorities to pursue people over "non-crime hate incidents". The bar to criminal…
Nov 18, 2024
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Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA
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