ACADEMICS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM 6th June 2021 Dennis Hayes News The decision to lift the suspension of the Batley Grammar School teacher ...

MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories MMU student told his course leader he was 'extremely concerned...

Posted on National Secular Society website: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 by Bob Forder Religious leaders have long feared irreverent drawings that cou...

ON the first Easter Sunday we were together my wife rushed into the garden to tell me that the Pope was just about to give his address ‘Urbi...

IN Great Britain the common law offence of blasphemy was abolished in May 2008. Which suggest that the recent BBC News headline ‘Batley Gra...

Editorial comment: Mark Birkett has responded with the comment below and has tried to spell out the problems with regard to the Batley Gram...

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a Batley school teacher to be reinstated after he allegedly showed derogatory caricat...

FREEDOM of speech , especially freedom of the press is in danger the world over.Two major Western Democracies, USA and the UK are trying to ...

by Philip Dickens Comment, on the FREEDOM PRESS WEBSITE Jan 12th Editorial Note: We are publishing below a post by Philip Dickens from th...

THE GUARDIAN Ben Quinn @BenQuinn75 Wed 9 Dec 2020 19.26 GMT Proposals requiring Cambridge University staff and students to be “respectfu...

EDITORIAL STATEMENT: A STATUE of George Orwell stands outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in London. The wall behin...

Salman Rushdie et al. in Harper’s Magazine “HARRY POTTER” writer J.K Rowling, “Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood and “Midnight’s...

VARSITY 3rd, July 2020* IN an interview with Reasoned on Tuesday, the controversial historian Dr. David Starkey argued, “Slavery was n...

 Black and White who is right?   by Brian Bamford   'Eliot’s fondness for doggerel and light verse, in particular, was inte...

by Les May I WROTE th e article italicised below in October last year. I thought that the topic and the approach would make it sui...

Union Disipline, Free Speech & Dissent? * by Brian Bamford PAUL EMBERY, has been a trade union member since he was 16, but Andrew ...

by Les May NORTHERN VOICES does not have a ‘party line’ in spite of some people thinking it should adopt theirs.  But there are so...