Tag: Free Speech
An Open Letter on the Government’s Proposed Definition of “Islamophobia”
We, organisations from across the moral, political and ideological spectrum, including faith groups and secular organisations, write to express serious concern about the UK Government’s ongoing efforts to adopt a […]
Meet the groups leading the free speech fight-back against Britain’s ‘institutionally captured’ universities
James Saunders wrote a long piece for GB News on the free speech fightback in universities. Here, with permission, we publish a short taster. In his article James also discuss […]
Left and right on free speech legislation
Professor Lindsay Paterson, emeritus professor of education policy at the University of Edinburgh, discusses the changed attitude of the liberal left to state legislation. Something ideologically peculiar is happening in […]
The importance of academic freedom
A talk given by Professor Dennis Hayes at Canterbury Christ Church University on Wednesday 2 November 2022. It would be wrong to assume that everyone in the academy supports academic […]
Academics have internalised the fatwa. It is time to defend free speech, no ifs, no buts.
In a little over a week the attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie has vanished from the headlines. At the outset there were condemnations of the attack declaring it a […]
Bill of Rights Bill 2022
PRESS RELEASE dated: 23 June 2022 Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) say the government’s proposed Bill of Rights should go further – and prioritise free speech above all freedoms […]
How to set up an AFAF branch
If you are an individual who wants to defend free speech and academic freedom, it is possible to be wary of ‘putting your head above the parapet’. However, there is […]
Should we cancel Cancel Culture?
This forthcoming debate is part of Buxton Battle of Ideas festival and is sponsored by AFAF. Find out more here. From China to UK universities, the Taliban to Trump, it seems […]
The Shadow University
Richard Harris and Dennis Hayes discuss the threat to freedom of speech in what thay call the ‘shadow university’. In 1998, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate wrote a […]
The Anatomy of Hate: Submission in Opposition to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill
AFAF (Scotland) member, Dr Carlton Brick, made this submission to the Scottish parliamentary committee stage of the Scottish National Party’s Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill. This is a […]
