Category: Freedom of speech

Oriel College urged to cancel student group’s event with Jason Arday accuser

Student supporters of Reform UK at Oxford college have organised evening with Nathan Cofnas discussing DEIThe University of Oxford’s Oriel College has been urged to cancel an event featuring Jason Arday’s accuser Nathan Cofnas...

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UK national security adviser under pressure over wife’s comment on supporting Palestine Action

Author Sarah Helm, married to Jonathan Powell, wrote to back novelist Sally Rooney’s support of proscribed direct action groupThe UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell is under pressure to distance himself from a...

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Lisa Nandy announces plan to quit X over fear it pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concern over its far right content that fuels violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours...

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Lisa Nandy announces plan to quit X over fear it pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concern over its far right content that fuels violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours...

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Lisa Nandy announces plan to quit X over fear it pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concern over its far right content that fuels violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours...

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Legislation proposed to stop ‘lawfare’ targeting journalists and whistleblowers

Private members’ bills to crack down on use of Slapps are likely to attract cross-party supportA coordinated push to protect whistleblowers, journalists and victims of sexual assault from being sued by those who wish to silence...

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Free speech activists condemn UK entry ban for Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur

Two leftwing US commentators, who have both been accused of propagating antisemitism, barred from visiting for eventThe UK is failing to protect freedom of speech, prominent activists have said, after the government banned two...

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