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Free Speech and Conscience
Passages defending the right and obligation of every citizen to judge whatever is good and true, and to talk back to those who govern him.
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No Platform
By William Belsham
Fiery young attorney Thomas Erskine stood up in the House of Commons to denounce a bill aiming to silence critics of the Government.
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Losing Steam
By John Stuart Mill
Those in Power may imagine that a docile and compliant public makes Government run more smoothly, but a society of that kind just won’t move forward.
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The Decencies of Debate
Abusive language, straw-man arguments and downright ‘fake news’ should have no place in civilised debate, but censoring them is far worse.
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Social Intolerance
Even where freedom of speech and conscience are not curtailed by law, there is another kind of censorship that is just as destructive to progress.
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Three Aspects of Liberty
John Stuart Mill set out three kinds of liberty essential to a truly free society: freedom of conscience, of tastes, and of association.
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The Peterloo Massacre
By William Edward Armytage Axon
A rowdy but good-humoured crowd gathered in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to protest against electoral malpractice and Government cronyism.
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