Free Speech

Interview – Darcy Leigh

E-International Relations • Mar 20 2024 • Features

Darcy Leigh elucidates the need to incorporate Queer Feminist perspectives in International Relations, and the dangers of a lack of nuance when evaluating free speech.

Interview – Tariq Modood

E-International Relations • Jan 17 2021 • Features

Tariq Modood talks about the relationship between secularism and multiculturalism, as well as free speech and the role of political satire.

Considering the Whole Ecosystem in Regulating Terrorist Content and Hate Online

Amy-Louise Watkin • Sep 18 2019 • Articles

The whole ecosystem is going to require new regulatory frameworks to combat extremist content online. Removal of content is not necessarily the best form of action.

Tolerating Difference: Free Speech on Campus

Jan Lüdert • May 5 2017 • Articles

If we want students to tolerate difference, educators ought to create a space in which students are free to speak their mind and evaluate the ideas of others.

A Berlin-Ankara Axis against Satire?

Robert A. Saunders • Apr 20 2016 • Articles

In the context of a highly charged political environment, we are seeing that European values associated with free speech might just be more malleable than once thought.

Qui est Charlie?

Simon Thompson • Mar 6 2015 • Articles

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks some commentators have said that free speech should have no limits. In fact, it does – and nearly everyone agrees that it should.

The Dilemma of Living in a Complex, Multi-faith Society

Simon Thompson • Jan 23 2014 • Articles

To what extent it is permissible for a group in a democratic society to conduct its collective life in accordance with rules which are not fully congruent with the laws of that society?

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