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.

John Stuart Mill set out three kinds of liberty essential to a truly free society: freedom of conscience, of tastes, and of association.

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.

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

John Stuart Mill reminds us that governments and the courts must never be allowed to criminalise matters of belief or opinion.

J. S. Mill argues that free trade has done more to put an end to war than any political union or military alliance.