A society which looks to the state to deliver retribution for non-harmful offensive speech is a society which no longer values a core tenet of liberal democracy The battle for free speech is won or lost at the margins, which means that those who call themselves advocates of free speech …
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900 Numbers can be important. Remember that number. 900 One has to be aware that stories on Twitter gain a life and currency all of their own. The same can be said, at least in part, by reports on MSM such as the BBC, SkyNews and ITV News and of course, when …
Read More »We must learn to be British again
Something happened to Britain in the past fifty years or so. We were famous for not making a fuss no matter what happened and we were famous for not showing emotion. When Lord Uxbridge had his leg shot off at Waterloo, he is said to have remarked casually to the …
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