"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
George Orwell
The Jason Arday scandal is about far more than one professor and one university. It is emblematic of a Western elite that, in the name of inclusion and representation, is abandoning the very principles on which the greatness of its own institutions was built.
AfD candidates are being barred from elections, the domestic intelligence service is being used against the political opposition, and powerful forces are working towards a ban on the party. Developments in Germany lend renewed urgency to J.D. Vance’s warning that the greatest threat to freedom in Europe may come from within.
When the Oxford Union invited Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox and Jonathan Sacerdoti in June to debate whether the West is right to be suspicious of Islam, a majority ultimately rejected the motion. But the most interesting thing about the two-and-a-half-hour debate was not the familiar arguments inside the chamber. It was everything that happened around it.
From Matt Taibbi and the Twitter Files to DR’s P3 and Danish climate politicians: a new elite no longer sees journalism as a search for truth, but as a tool for steering the public in the “right” direction.
Hundreds of thousands are gathering around Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom demonstrations in London, yet the movement continues to be met with social ostracism, political distancing and media suspicion. The most remarkable thing about England right now is not the protest alone — but the fact that so many people appear to share its concerns without daring to acknowledge them publicly.
As the protest movement in England grows explosively, politicians and the media continue to reduce the country’s turmoil to economics, populism and “far-right agitators” who must be controlled and censored. But beneath the surface, a far deeper distrust of institutions, police and media is smouldering — and it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
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Freedom of expression is under tremendous strain. Nationally and globally, writers, artists and politicians are threatened upon their lives and/or with their livelihoods, or sued in court for expressing particular views. Fear, self-censorship and oppressive anti-defamation laws are in the process of undermining our main liberty: Freedom of expression.
The Free Press Society’s freedom of expression prize, the Sappho Award, is awarded to a person who has shown uncompromising courage in the struggle for the free word.
