Mick Hume

Mick Hume is editor-at-large of the online magazine spiked. He is the author of Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? and There Is No Such Thing As A Free Press ...and we need one more than ever. Hume was editor of LM magazine (which he launched, originally as Living Marxism, in 1988) until it was forced to close in 2000 following a libel suit, and then launched spiked, which he edited until January 2007. He now writes regularly on free speech issues for publications from the Sunday Times to the Sun.

Related Sessions
Tuesday 9 October 2012, 6.30pm Room 2, The Broadway, 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AL
Saturday 20 October 2012, 12.15pm Hammerson Room
Sunday 21 October 2012, 10.30am Pit Theatre
Sunday 21 October 2012, 3.15pm Pit Theatre

Publications

Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? (William Collins 2016)

Your mind, your high: is recreational drug use morally wrong?

"There's a real sense of intellectual delight that so much can be discussed in just sixty minutes - and so thoughtfully - both by the speakers and especially by the audience. A rich feast of ideas."
Christopher Kelly, reader in Ancient History and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus Christi College

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