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In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can’t-Say-That.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Authorās note
- Prologue: āJe Suis Charlieā and the free-speech fraud
- SECTION ONE: The silent war on free speech
- 1 A few things we forgot about free speech
- 2 The age of the reverse-Voltaires
- 3 A short history of free-speech heretics
- 4 The Internet Front: hunting for trolls down āmemory holesā
- 5 The University Front: students fight for āfreedom from speechā
- 6 The Entertainment Front: football ā kicking free speech with impunity; comedy ā no laughing matter
- SECTION TWO: Five good excuses for restricting free speech ā and why theyāre all wrong
- 7 āThere is no right to shout āFire!ā in a crowded theatreā
- 8 āā¦ but words will always hurt meā
- 9 āMind your Ps, Qs, Ns and Ysā
- 10 āLiars and Holocaust deniers do not deserve to be heardā
- 11 āFree speech is just a licence for the mass media to brainwash the publicā
- A short summation for the defence
- Epilogue: The Trigger Warnings we need
- Notes
- About the Publisher