Free speech is the bedrock on which all our other freedoms rest, yet it is currently in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. The Free Speech Union is a non-partisan, mass-membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members.

The managerialist elite no longer look like the solution to our woes, but the cause of many of them

Hannah Arendt's experience of the Eichmann trial in 1961 and of the reaction to her book about this, Eichmann in Jerusalem, led her to think deeply about politics, truth, and plurality. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Samantha...

John Gray

John Gray

John Gray

John Gray

On the virtue of tolerance. "You wouldn’t celebrate Osama’s death, only Thatcher’s. And you wouldn’t call ISIS savages, only Fox News. Fox is the outgroup, ISIS is just some random people off in a desert. You hate the outgroup, you don’t hate random desert people."

Christopher Booker: What 'free speech' didn’t tell us about Charlie Hebdo jokes

A criticism, before the shootings, of Charlie Hebdo