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·23rd January 2015

Censorship is more dangerous than offence

Esther Fisher
Twelve people were shot allegedly because of a picture of Mohammed. Much of the horror and outrage that we have...
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·12th October 2017

Is free speech in India officially dead?

DK Bose
Back in 2015, I subscribed to Dawn, Pakistan͛s biggest English language news magazine. It was an impulsive decision, prompted by...
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·17th October 2013

Belarus Free Theatre

Richard Foord
Belarus is the last dictatorship in Europe. Under president Lukashenko’s regime, freedom of the press is severely restricted, media organisations...
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·26th February 2023

Rewriting Roald Dahl: Dangerous Censorship Lies Elsewhere

Yii-Jen Deng
An odd thing about the controversy over the new edited version of Road Dahl by Puffin Books is that it...
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·1st May 2020

Remove “hateful material” from mandatory teaching, says SU council

Emily Charley
A motion which mandates the Oxford University Student Union (SU) to condemn the use of “hateful material” in mandatory teaching...
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·16th February 2012

Concerned about Christians?

Owen John defends his objection to the Christian Concern conference, claiming the views this organisation propagates is tremendously harmful to the gay community.
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·18th May 2019

Katie Hopkins and free speech law in the UK

Julian Manieson
Image Description: Protesters outside the Oxford Union during Hopkins’ debate.  I was planning to write this week’s column about tax...
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·1st May 2020

In defence of academic liberty

Antonio Pattori
A Student Council motion recently passed arguing that the current legal definition of what constitutes ‘hate speech’ is not enough....
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·24th March 2015

Union invites radical Islamist preacher to speak

Latifah Sat
Radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has announced his invitation to the Oxford Union. Choudary has been on bail since September...
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·30th May 2023

Rishi Sunak intervenes in Stock debate

Rose Henderson
Rishi Sunak has backed Kathleen Stock’s appearance at the Oxford Union, in an unprecedented intervention into campus politics. The Prime...
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·16th February 2021

Column: Freedom to Tweet?

Clara Morrissey and Dan Harrison
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