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No sacred cows

Labour’s backwards steps on free speech

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

Free speech advocates like me need to stop talking about the meagre gains we made under the last government because the present one seems to be listening carefully, taking notes, then gleefully reversing each one. First it torpedoed the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act. Then it threatened to put the ‘legal but harmful’ stuff back into the Online Safety Act.

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