Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Liberty & Law

A secular society should not prevent people from acting on their religious beliefs
Debating Matters' acclaimed Topic Guides place debates in a social context
Nadia Butt, Debating Matters, 28 August 2015

How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
It started with two college students who were sick of people victim-blaming rape victims.
Kaitlynn Mendes, AlterNet, 12 August 2015

Auntie, why are you so scared of change?
The BBC should realise that shake-ups are good.
Andrew Orlowski, spiked, 15 July 2015

Ten year after 7/7, they still don’t get it
The problem isn’t powerful jihadism – it’s the crisis of Western values.
Frank Furedi, spiked, July 2015

UK Government's surveillance plans could put citizens, economy and entire internet at risk
Proposals are 'unworkable in practice, raise enormous legal and ethical questions, and would undo progress on security at a time when internet vulnerabilities are causing extreme economic harm', leading experts argue
Andrew Griffin, Independent, 8 July 2015

The Guardian view on the licence fee: a time to rally round the BBC
The way to stop the Conservatives marginalising the corporation is to make them realise that an assault would spell political disaster
Guardian, 1 July 2015

Censorship is being outsourced to the mob
Brendan O'Neill, spiked, 30 June 2015

How free speech became a thought crime
A chilling warning after feminists hound a Nobel winner from his job for 'sexism'
Mick Hume, Daily Mail, 20 June 2015

Without freedom of expression our other liberties are jeopardised, insists a searing polemic
Qualifications to freedom of speech seemingly increase daily, made by people who would tell you they are unquestionably devoted to the concept of freedom of speech.
Rod Liddle, Sunday Times, 14 June 2015

'People can't lead fully independent lives if they're dependent on the state'
Neil Ross, spiked, 29 May 2015


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