Free Speech on Life Support With Claire Fox
Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, is a member of the UK House of Lords and director of the Academy of Ideas. In conversation with Giuseppe Gracia, she discusses the fragile state of free speech in the UK, pressured by expanding hate and harm laws and a culture that treats offense as injury. Fox argues that subjective “psychological harm” and victim defined hate are being used to silence debate and intimidate institutions. Identity politics and safe space culture, she says, have replaced argument with moral blackmail and self censorship. Their shared conclusion: there is no right not to be…
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