How many armed police officers does it take to arrest an Irish comedian? No, that's not the beginning of a bad joke. But it's precisely the scenario which Graham Linehan (BAFTA winning comedy writer/...
The Free Speech Union - with your crucial help - beat back the proposed expansion of hate speech and hate crime laws here in New Zealand. We warned then that any new laws would be used, not so much to...
New Plymouth Boys' High School apologises to Oliver Jull!
It’s not just national fights we take on at the Free Speech Union – we stick up for ‘the little guy’, too. And sometimes, quite literally. Remember Oliver Jull, the New Plymouth Boys’ High School st...
I’ll be honest with you, I’ve been watching the rapid disintegration of speech rights in the UK with horror. More than 700 people arrested in a single week, police knocking on doors to warn against ev...
Over 500 protesters arrested in UK - could it happen here?
Over the weekend, history was made in the UK, but not in a good way. More than 500 people were arrested for protesting peacefully, holding signs, and wearing shirts with slogans. Yes, you read that co...
I recently discovered that perhaps the most vocal and unabashed proxy in New Zealand for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lives in a street adjoining my own.His name is Morgan Xiao and while I don’t ...
