You don’t need to buy Nigel Farage’s wild claims about MI5 being behind the closure of his accounts to see that banking is too important to modern life to let people be shut out of it on private whim.
From books to social media bans to ‘non-crime hate incidents’, we live in an increasingly censorious society.
In his piece for this site last week, Chris Philp downplayed the way it is drafted to push platforms towards suppressing lawful content.
Despite ministers’ reassurances and some improvements, the Bill’s safeguards for free speech online are insufficient.
The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a man whose social media activity saw him in trouble with the law.
Zahawi, the new Education Secretary, should consider whether the bill as it stands is a sticking plaster.
Issues that could be settled in the pub are being taken to regulators and the High Court.
In Britain, we don’t ‘do God’ too much. Should we go to church, most are not C of E, but C and E – Christmas and Easter.
It has a wonderful opportunity to preserve this value on campus. One that may not present itself again for some time.
One of the school’s teachers has been fired for making a video about differences between men and women.
I will be looking to introduce a Private Member’s Bill to guarantee our rights to bank accounts. If I cannot get the time for that, I will be looking to amend the first relevant Bill that goes through the Commons.