Sweat The Small Stuff, Revisited
Previously on this blog, I’ve written about the need for activists to be an ‘awkward squad’ — a group of people who can be relied upon to kick up a fuss about small and innocuous infringements of human...
View ArticleSpeaking at the Muslim Council of Britain on Islamophobia and Free Speech
On Tuesday evening I participated in the launch of Defining Islamophobia: A Contemporary Understanding of How Expressions of Muslimness are Targeted, a report published by the Muslim Council of...
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How Legal Drafting Chills Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly
Borrowed from @jamesdmorris twitter feed.Parliament begins to debate the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill today. Following the scenes of heavy-handed policing at the vigil for Sarah Everard...
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Notes on #Batley
Last week, a controversy erupted in Batley, Yorkshire, after a teacher showed his class a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed, during a discussion about the Charlie Hebdo massacre of 2015.The school has...
View ArticleReligious Freedom, Free Speech and Employment Rights: the case of Seyi Omooba
Remember the Seyi Omooba controversy? Back in March 2019, she was cast as the lead in the Curve Theatre’s production of The Color Purple. Soon after this was announced, a Facebook post from 2014...
View ArticleLibel Justice for Nowy Czas
Nowy Czas is a newspaper that serves the Polish community of London. It is edited by Grzegorz and Teresa Malkiewicz.Back in 2015 they published an article about a businessman. They discussed his...
View ArticleEmployment Tribunals: The New Free Speech Front Line
Back in February I wrote a post on the judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Seyi Omooba v Michael Garret Associates Ltd. The main conclusion: Employment Tribunals have become the free speech front...
View ArticleDiscussing Free Speech at Universities on TalkRADIO with Patrick Christys
Yesterday lunchtime I was invited back onto TalkRADIO to discuss free speech. [previously] This time my host was Patrick Cristys and the topic of discussion was the government’s bizarre plan to...
View ArticleDefamation Claims in 2020: A Libel Thaw?
Just published on the International Forum for Responsible Media (Inforrm) Blog – an article by yrstrly on what we can learn from the High Court defamation claims issued in 2020. I scraped data from...
View ArticleTalking Free Speech With James Whale on TalkRADIO
On 7 December 2021 the Law Commission published the final report of its review of hate crime legislation. I was invited onto the James Whale show to discuss the nature of free speech vs hate speech,...
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