A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

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Even by the standards of the imperial savagery deployed by certain Western armies in the post-9/11 era, it’s horrendous stuff. And if Roberts-Smith or anyone else feels they’ve been wronged, then of course they must be free to make their case too. That’s the new form of shepherding, where experts, rather than priests, attach danger signs to books so that we sheep will know of the risk involved in reading them, and might avoid reading them entirely. If you’re a member of spiked supporters, our online donor community, you can register now on our online donor hub and claim your free ticket.

The revolutionary power of heresy - spiked

Also, if you’d like to get a signed copy of the book, and support our good work here at spiked while you’re at it, we currently have a special donation offer.He ‘possessed an unconquerable spirit’ and was ‘of so quarrelsome a disposition that it has been appositely said of him that, if there were none living but him, John would be against Lilburne, and Lilburne against John’. Their atrocity can be seen as the militant wing of political correctness, an extrajudicial enforcement of the heresy-hunting that is a central feature of governance and control in the West today. This is a sincerely held ethical and moral position – one that I dare say will be vindicated in time. Lilburne coined the term ‘freeborn rights’ to describe the fundamental liberties we all just have, or ought to have.

Free thought at stake in the New Inquisition as gender

All this is proof, if any more were needed, that the war on disinformation is really a war on dissent. But his continual hunting by agents of the English Crown and the Catholic Church – he was ‘hunted like an outlaw’, always ‘working clandestinely’ – forced him on to the run. The European Parliament has no jurisdiction over the appointment of the European Council’s presidency. Through showing rather than telling, Channel 4 allows viewers a rare glimpse of the intimidation and dishonesty at the heart of the gender wars. Deviate from their truths that say Islam is a perfect religion, that sex is changeable, that same-sex marriage is morally equal to opposite-sex marriage, and you’ll be damned as an Islamophobe, a transphobe, a homophobe.Censorship is an invitation to revert to a childlike state, which makes it unsurprising that modern zones of censorship – Safe Spaces – so often resemble kindergartens for adults. Where you are in your thinking is very much needing a lot of enlightenment and reading’, said a British police officer last year to a woman whose speechcrime was to put stickers on her front door questioning the idea that transwomen are women. Activists assume that frequent repetition of this mantra will make people forget about biological facts. Remi Adekoya – author of It’s Not About Whiteness, It’s About Wealth – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Transgender interviewees complain about their identity becoming a ‘debate’, while refusing even to acknowledge that gender self-identification means the end of single-sex spaces.