Tommy Robinson was released this week from a British prison after his contempt of court conviction was not merely quashed but scathingly condemned on appeal. Here, with videos and a link to that ruling, is the genesis and gist of England's disgrace

The Danish cartoon controversy prompted a spectacular failure of will and principle in the West, the commentator tells Quadrant. 'First they come for the cartoonists, ultimately they move on to everybody else. The provocations ... get lamer and lamer. We are losing our world.'

Australia by the 1990s had emerged as one of the most diverse, tolerant and cohesive multicultural nations in the world. Sir Robert Menzies would have objected to 18C not on the grounds of its laudable objective to combat racism but on its inevitable effect of curtailing free speech

Britain's wartime leader defied Hitler and preserved at the cost of blood and treasure the sceptre'd isle of Magna Carta and hard-won liberties. How now is that we see this legacy of freedoms being so meekly surrendered?

When the US Nazi Party paraded in the American town with that nation's highest concentration of Holocaust survivors it was more than a victory for free speech. Thanks to the unfettered debate surrounding the event, a gang of posturing, publicity-seeking fools were revealed for what they are. That's the beauty of free speech: it works

The reason Section 18C must be scrapped could not be more simple: politically-motivated lawfare makes the price of free speech far too high. The so-called right of others not to be offended restricts our freedom to fully and freely discuss subjects of national importance

The profound analytical and moral confusion that afflicts Western political […]

Disgruntled activist-journalists might prefer us to believe that we are neither free nor competent to express our views for ourselves -- because then we must look to them to speak, protest, vandalise, hector, bully and obfuscate on our behalf.

Progress is a funny thing. Some 60 years ago, the ABC radio soap opera 'Blue Hills' tackled the same issues of racial identity that landed Andrew Bolt in so much trouble. Somehow, in our so-called age of tolerance, it has become so much easier to apply the gag