On this day: Peers vote to defend free speech
On 12 December 2012, in a victory for free speech, the House of Lords voted to reform a controversial law that criminalised ‘insulting’ words or behaviour.
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The trashing of truth
‘If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’, wrote George Orwell. Nearly 75 years ago Animal Farm was published. Famously, its author, George Orwell, believed that real liberty must involve the freedom to call out lies.
Escape from Reason
Fifty years ago the great Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer wrote Escape from Reason.
‘Why don’t you campaign on…?’
We’re occasionally asked why we don’t campaign on such and such a topic – most frequently poverty and the environment.
Oppression and Toleration: Charles II and William of Orange
By 1660, the British people were crying out for a king. Most had never fully taken to the Cromwellian vision of a republic. A return to a monarchy was inevitable, but not without opposition.
MPs caused this gambling crisis. Now they must tackle it
This article first appeared on The Conservative Woman