EDITOR'S NOTE: Chris Sloggett wrote the opinion piece below on the 2nd, July on the National Secular Society website. ***********...

by Brendan O’Neill If you need someone to support your right to freedom of speech, forget the teaching unions. Don’t look to the commentar...

YESTERDAY, 2 May, the Filipino journalist Maria Ressa was presented with the World Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO in recognition of her fi...

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...

by KILL THE BILL PROTESTER, Wednesday Mar 31, 2021 I’ve been working in various roles in the community, youth and social sectors for aroun...

By 5Pillars (RMS) - 2 months ago Over 130 imams and Islamic scholars have written to the Prime Minister urging him to condemn the showing...

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

Verse : 65 : `Let a great Assembly be Of the fearless and the free On some spot of English ground Where the plains stretch wide around....

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 ...

A REGULAR THEME of what I have written for Northern Voices is the threat to freedom of speech posed by those who try to prevent people whos...

A JUDGE today has refused to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US. In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court this mo...

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

by Brian Bamford A CAMBRIDGE philosophy professor has branded as 'woke' the constraints on freedom of speech in higher education...

I WAS recently chatting to an older lady who has actively supported Labour for the forty plus years I have known her. She tried to persuad...

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by ANDY WASTLING Kakistocracy (English pronunciation: /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/) is a system of government which is run by the worst, ...

I HAVE never taken Extinction Rebellion (XR) very seriously and I increasingly see their performances as a bit of street theatre. In part ...

Boris Johnson condemns Extinction Rebellion protesters YESTERDAY it was reported that Boris Johnson had condemned the Extinction Rebell...