It's bizarre. I know of a historian, Alex Mann, who spends quite a bit of time following Holocaust deniers, simply because he wants to see what arguments they're coming up with (and he debu… (View Post)

Or as LJ Sedley put it, "Freedom, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to say things that other people do not wish to hear." On the face of it, it is hard to see how this legislat… (View Post)

The same way that "hate speech" tends to mean speech that the political establishment, in any given era, strongly dislikes. (View Post)

What was the rationale behind this stupid piece of legislation? (View Post)

I live there. The advantage is that you can afford a big house and garden, at prices that you would normally find about 200 miles further North. (View Post)