Ben Boult: We Need a British First Amendement - and Here's How We Could Get Close to One

Ben Boult: We need a British First Amendement - and here's how we could get close to one

Ben Boult is a politics graduate and civil liberties campaigner. Following February’s Munich Security Conference, during which JD Vance decried the erosion of free speech in the UK, I began to wonder what the future might hold for the protection of this right. If, as some are predicting, we are taken out of the European Convention on Human Rights in the next Parliament, and if the Human Rights Act 1998 is replaced with the oft-fabled ‘British Bi…

MRC VP Schneider Denounces ‘Greatest Weapon’ for Censorship in Heart of EU

MRC VP Schneider Denounces ‘Greatest Weapon’ for Censorship in Heart of EU MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and other free speech advocates exposed the insidious impact of a vague European censorship law from the capital of the European Union. Schneider and his fellow panelists went after the pro-censorship European Union for cheering on Big Tech censorship at a May 21 panel in Brussels. Schneider specifically lambasted the …

‘Surveillance and control’: Experts convene at European Parliament to warn about EU online censorship law, following US State Department expressing concern

Experts this morning warned about the threats of an EU online censorship law, in a first-of-its-kind, cross-party convening at the European Parliament.