Free speech is no excuse for being abusive to someone of a differing viewpoint, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 19 November 2018 The neighbours are having an almighty row,” wrote Gene Kerrigan in yesterday’s Sunday Independent. “Screaming,...
Published: 8 August 2018 Boris Johnson’s joke about burka-wearing women looking like ‘letter boxes’ made me wince – not least because I know there are so many women forced to dress that way at the behest of their menfolk and who hate how it makes them look. There are...
The 37 academics who wrote to complain demonstrated double standards and contempt for free speech, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 June 2018 Universities are increasingly under pressure from bullying lobby groups to abandon free speech. Consider this...
