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					What is ‘dehumanising’ speech?
				
Eric Heinze provocatively argues that no-platformers need to look into the mirror and examine their own blind spots. 

					The rise of a new orthodoxy
				
Secularism poses its own threat to free speech, argues Father Jordi Pujol.  

					Bishop Dieser of Aachen: Europe must defend its secular culture
				
Bishop Dieser of Aachen examines our sixth principle, “Respect the believer but not necessarily the content of the belief”.

					Hate speech and inter-ethnic violence in Nigeria
				
Bill Snaddon describes Nigerian writers’ appeals to curb hate speech and ethnic stereotyping in a fragile nation.

					Russia: ‘The Church has an enemy in every home.’ It’s television.
				
Helen Haft explains how the Orthodox Church has eroded freedom of the media and lobbied for the 2013 law against offending religious feelings.

					Is there a universal right to free speech and what are its limits?
				
Timothy Garton Ash in conversation with Nigel Warburton, as part of the Philosophy in the Bookshop series at Blackwell’s, Oxford.

					Barack Obama, John Kerry, and the Palestine saga
				
Avi Shlaim explores whether there was anything Obama could have done to salvage his reputation in the remaining weeks of his lame-duck presidency.

					Antizionism and antisemitism in British politics
				
Avi Shlaim explores the quality of debate within British politics of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and argues that an anti-racist movement has been portrayed as a racist one.

					An introductory guide to the ten principles
				
Our social media team have created a new way to explore the 10 principles on Youtube.

					The University of Cape Town and the Flemming Rose Affair
				
Milton Shain discusses his university’s controversial cancellation of a lecture by the journalist who commissioned the ‘Danish cartoons’.

					The Russian Orthodox Church and freedom of expression: 2016 update
				
Olga Shvarova explores how the Russian Orthodox Church’s interpretation of traditional moral values and spiritual security affects freedom of expression in Russia.

					Russia’s law on offending religious feelings
				
Helen Haft examines the case of a blogger prosecuted after an online argument and its implications for Russian free speech.

					Shirin Ebadi on the fight for free speech and human rights in Iran
				
A transcript of our conversation with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who spoke to Free Speech Debate about her book ‘Until We Are Free’.

					Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi: How has free speech changed in Iran?
				
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi talks to Free Speech Debate about her book Until We Are Free and the state of free speech and human rights activism in Iran.

					Leslie Green on Right Speech
				
Leslie Green argues that Buddhist ideas about avoiding divisive, abusive and false speech can help us live together well in free societies.

					Ken MacDonald: Should British universities be responsible for counter-terrorism?
				
In this interview, Ken Macdonald, formerly Britain’s Director of Public Prosecutions and now Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, talks about the importance of free speech and the introduction of “prevent” duties to universities.  He also comments on the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

					Religion
				
We respect the believer but not necessarily the content of the belief.

					‘Lee Kuan Yew is Finally Dead!’ blogger prosecuted
				
Julian Simmons examines a Singaporean’s expletive-laden video on the recently deceased leader and his conviction for wounding religious feelings.

					‘Innocence of Muslims’ and the manufacture of outrage
				
Danyal Kazim explores the violent reaction to the YouTube video in Pakistan – starting with trying to access it from there.

					Why ‘no-platforming’ those who peddle hate speech does not pose a free speech issue
				
Purushottam Vikas engages with criticisms directed at a controversial petition regarding an Oxford India Society speaking event.

					Is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights setting regional standards?
				
Laura Bernal-Bermudez examines a judgement that actually led to a change in the Chilean constitution

					Charlie Hebdo cartoons: to republish or not to republish?
				
Sarah Glatte explores the question which divided the world’s media.

					Has France been hypocritical about free speech?
				
In the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations, Arthur Asseraf examines the history of French colonial double standards in Algeria.

					Giles Fraser: What can Christianity teach us about free speech?
				
Giles Fraser,  commentator and Anglican priest, talks with Declan Johnston about the relationship between free speech and religion, and the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.

					Ian McEwan on free speech and religion
				
The celebrated English novelist on Islam’s ‘totalitarian moment’ and why freedom of expression is not religion’s enemy but its protector.

					What did the Buddha mean by ‘right speech’?
				
Matthew Walton explores the deeper Buddhist context of right speech – and soul-searching on Buddhist internet message boards.

					Does Charlie Hebdo drift into racist caricatures?
				
The first edition of the magazine since the attack in which 12 people were killed featured a cartoon of  Muhammad on its cover. Myriam Francois-Cerrah objects.

					Against the assassin’s veto
				
Timothy Garton Ash suggests a European media week of solidarity, including republication of Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

					Religion: Sample our intellectual buffet. Or make your own meal.
				
Timothy Garton Ash introduces a sample tour of the content on our site. 

					Salman Rushdie: What have been the most important changes to free speech in the last 25 years?
				
25 years after the fatwa and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Salman Rushdie discusses with Timothy Garton Ash whether there is now more or less freedom of expression in Europe, worrying developments in India and his critical view of Edward Snowden. 

					Should the LSE’s Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society have asked people to cover up people wearing religious t-shirts?
				
At the London School of Economics Students’s Union Freshers’ Fair members of the Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Student Society were asked to cover up their T-shirts displaying a Jesus and Mo cartoon. This panel discussion discusses the freedom to offend and how to balance freedom of expression and civility.

					Should Europe introduce a right to blasphemy?
				
Alain Bouldoires talks to Timothy Garton Ash about the survival of blasphemy laws in Europe, and calls for a ‘right to blaspheme’.

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