Source: spiked
by Claire Fox
“Everyone claims to believe in free speech – until someone says something they dislike. That produces a censorious tit-for-tat cancel culture, not just on the left but increasingly on the right. Instead, we must uphold free speech as a principle for all. And we need to start exercising our free-speech muscles that risk atrophying in an era of progressive censorship. That is why the Battle of Ideas, the original free-speech festival, matters.” (10/15/26)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/15/why-the-battle-of-ideas-matters-in-our-age-of-censorship/