Labour’s war on free speech

An unspoken maxim looms over the free speech crisis in our universities: it is only ever denied by those whose views fall in line with the current orthodoxy. For all its faults, and there were many, Britain’s previous government recognised …

The Censorship Boomerang

Madness is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

They fooled themselves. The censorship meant to keep regular people in the dark instead blinded the pseudo-elite censors and their friends. 

The …

Censors Everywhere We Look

It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.

O’Brien, Officer of the Inner Party                                                                                           
1984, by George Orwell, Berkley/Penguin p. 225 

We’re letting you know that …