Stuff | 9 March 2018 OPINION: It’s hard to imagine now, but censorship was a cause celebre in the 1960s and 70s. The banning or restriction of movies, books and even records was never far from the headlines. Post-war liberalism was colliding head-on with traditional morality and the official censors were struggling to draw new…
Matt Ridley | 19 Oct 2017 Politics is increasingly about motives, not results My Times column on how intentions are taken to matter more than what works: The curse of modern politics is an epidemic of good intentions and bad outcomes. Policy after policy is chosen and voted on according to whether it means well,…
NZCPR | 12 Aug 2016 “The freedom to criticise or ridicule ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is a fundamental freedom of society. In my view the right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended… because one represents openness – and the other represents oppression.”…
The Independent | 3 Aug 2016 ‘Oh, little snowflakes, when did you all become grandmothers and society matrons, clutching your pearls in horror at someone who has an opinion about something, a way of expressing themselves that’s not the mirror image of yours?’ If you’ve been listening to Bret Easton Ellis’ excellent podcast over the…
Steve Watson |16 June 2016 The former director of the CIA and the NSA has warned that political correctness has become a significant hindrance when it comes to countering the threat of Muslim extremism. Appearing on CNN, retired Gen. Michael Hayden made the point that the national security strategy is being hindered because there is…
NZCPR | 15 April 2016 In this politically correct world, our right to free speech is increasingly being eroded by the apparent rights of others who disagree with our views. State broadcaster Television New Zealand came under attack last month, when they were accused of including a ‘racist’ question in their new KiwiMeter survey. KiwiMeter, a…
Breaking Views | 21 March 2016 Do you support free speech? How about free speech for climate change skeptics? For homophobes? For racists? For sexists? For white males? For even Donald Trump? Those who defend free speech, as did the American Founding Fathers, understand it is not about defending speech you agree with, but defending speech…
GWPF | 14 March 2016 British Universities And The New Fascism Just imagine, if you will, their shock. Their outrage. Their incomprehension. Britain’s most famous, achingly right-on, liberal lefties being blackballed from university campuses because they are insufficiently achingly right-on and liberal. They are being out-pioused from the far left — not simply told that…
Zero Hedge | 2Feb 2016 John Cleese says political correctness has gone too far, especially on America’s college campuses, where he will no longer go to perform. As BigThink reports, the very essence of his trade — comedy — is criticism and that not infrequently means hurt feelings. But protecting everyone from negative emotion all…
End Of The American Dream | January 12, 2016 An epidemic of rape is sweeping all across Europe, and yet European politicians seem almost completely unwilling to stand up and do something about it. In some major European cities, women are absolutely petrified to go out by themselves – especially at night. Things have gotten…