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Guest Post: Stuart Torr There are many people from vulnerable sections of the intersection matrix who do defend Freedom of Speech, like M...

It is important to be able to state what it is you think the person you disagree with believes. To state it in a way they say, ' Yes, t...

In Liberal Democracies, we have way better tools to build the world we want than waiting on hand and foot for a benevolent Government. Peop...

I am part of a whatsapp group with some close friends called ' Oozers '. I write fairly freely on my blog, but words mean different...

The opposite of thought control may be just as scary. Without being careful,  Animal Farm in reverse  may mean we focus so heavily on the b...

The Debatable Right to Free Speech ( Human Rights Series Part 1)   The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article ...

I am a strong believer in Free Speech. In all its uncomfortable, messy, hurtful, poorly constructed, ugly glory. That doesn’t mean I don...

Gossip has power . We are talented self-policers. We care what other people think, particularly our closest network of relationships. A fri...

There is a lot of talk around Safe Spaces at the moment, but two very different ideas of what that means. My understanding of the first way...

Trev: I loved the Free Speech board at my university residence. Most of the time it was empty, but occasionally it would burst into activ...

One of the consequences of Social Media and the ease with which ideas can now spread is that the issues most nations are dealing with seem ...

We know there is too much going on around the world to wrap our heads around. Many people I know have chosen to stop listening to the news...

There are lots of crazies in this world. Fortunately they do not represent the majority. In the past they did. Fifty years from now we may...

' There should be no boundary to human endeavour. No matter how bad things may seem, where there is life, there is hope .' - Stephen...

When we are taught to debate at school we are given a side of the argument. The objective is to win. I know there are many styles of debati...

Guest Post : Megan Butler Megan is braver than me. So are Dean ,  Brett  and Shingai . When it comes to the really sensitive topics, I al...

Grannies are cool. One of the coolest things about Grannies is perspective. A favourite happiness story I have heard is of a young angsty te...