Frédéric Bastiat made a tongue-in-cheek appeal to the French government, asking them to protect candlemakers from a cut-throat competitor.

Educational reformer Emily Davies argued that Victorian women had more to offer society than a purely ornamental erudition.

The privileges granted to European merchants in fifteenth-century London led to seething resentment in the City.

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.

Abusive language, straw-man arguments and downright ‘fake news’ should have no place in civilised debate, but censoring them is far worse.

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.