Someone can independently have a pro-American and pro-Russian stance, without coordinating his/her views with a government. This observation doesn’t omit the possibility of such a person periodically interacting with government or government-connected people (American, Russian or other) – a point that concerns Butina.
One of the most commonly sung at state events is Isaac Watts’ “O God, Our Help In Ages Past”. It was sung again yesterday at the Remembrance Sunday service in Westminster Abbey.
We believe it has made mistakes in its approach that undermine women’s sex-based rights and protections.
As George Orwell recognized, “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
The footage of four police officers carrying a disabled man and his wheelchair to a riot van, simply for praying, is deeply disturbing. Its intended effect is to silence any opposition to what is going on in the clinic. Christian’s arrest will have the opposite result.
Murphy does not believe that men should have access to female-only spaces such as toilets and changing facilities simply by ‘self-declaring’ their gender.
Assange is undeniably hated by the American political Establishment and even much of the media in bipartisan fashion, with the Democrats blaming him for Hillary Clinton’s loss while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has labeled him a “fraud, a coward and an enemy.”
Without freedom to hold and express dissenting views, the democratic principles we have fought so hard over the centuries to preserve will quickly be lost.
Businesses have “gone too far” in telling people how to live their lives, according to Australian Attorney-General Christian Porter.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission maintains that universities have a legal duty to uphold free speech.
If quoting the dictionary is a police matter, then we are no longer living in a free society.
My advice, if you are a conservative, is save yourself the trouble and self censor. The Marxist lecturer is on a moral one and there is no room for disagreement. Bide your time, get your degree and speak out afterwards.
As I said this, a member of staff stood up and left the room and the clerk of the school began to rage at me saying: ‘Look what you’ve gone and done, you’ve upset him.’
On the rare occasion a politician or commentator says something even remotely racist, they are swiftly mobbed and sometimes sacked. These are not the responses of a deeply racist country. They are the responses of a nation that has long been driven by a determination to move beyond racial differences.
Whether the entire league will be blacklisted is unclear. But the NBA now faces a no-win situation that may end up marking another inflection point in Sino-American relations.
Labelling people we disagree with as extremists simply in order to silence them is intellectually lazy and damaging to debate.
We are compelled now to use language in a way which has been prescribed for us by other parties with which we disagree.
Regrettably, in our time, there's now a movement to shut down the freedom of speech on the internet, which contains many news outlets which counterbalance the power of a united press.
It made us all think – if there is nothing wrong with abortion, why is this so disturbing? If people are finding this so offensive, maybe the act of abortion itself is indeed barbaric?
One reason for this is that the large numbers of Chinese students at Australian universities are starting to turn their financial clout into political power. Australian academics have been forced to apologise — or worse — for remarks made in the classroom about Sino-sensitive topics like Hong Kong and Taiwan, Tiananmen Square, Tibet, and border disputes with India.
People who suffer from gender dysphoria must be treated lovingly, but not telling the truth to these vulnerable people is unloving. Men cannot become women nor can women become men.
This story sends a chilling message to Christians, not only in the theatre industry but across our society, that if you express and hold mainstream Biblical views, you will be punished and will lose your career if you do not immediately renounce your beliefs.
In April 2017 the Christian Institute received a response to a Freedom of Information request about the percentage of BBC staff who are LGBT. It was revealed that 11.5% of BBC bosses and 10.6% of BBC staff identified as LGBT, compared to only 1.7% of the UK population.
There is a fundamental difference between speech that criticises ideas and threats of violence.