Free Speech And Why It Matters
- Author Andrew Doyle
- Narrator Andrew Doyle
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 2 hours and 21 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Political structures: democracy, Society and culture: general.
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What to expect
'A fantastically timely book written by one of the smartest thinkers in Britain' Piers Morgan
'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The Times
Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn. Governments throughout Europe have enacted 'hate speech' legislation to curb the dissemination of objectionable ideas, Silicon Valley tech giants are collaborating to ensure that they control the limitations of public discourse, and campaigners in the US are calling for revisions to the First Amendment.
However well-intentioned, these trends represent a threat to the freedoms that our ancestors fought and died to secure. In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and robust defence of this most foundational of principles.
'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The Times
Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn. Governments throughout Europe have enacted 'hate speech' legislation to curb the dissemination of objectionable ideas, Silicon Valley tech giants are collaborating to ensure that they control the limitations of public discourse, and campaigners in the US are calling for revisions to the First Amendment.
However well-intentioned, these trends represent a threat to the freedoms that our ancestors fought and died to secure. In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and robust defence of this most foundational of principles.
Critics Review
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Impassioned, scholarly and succinct
The Times -
The primer that we have been needing for some time
Areo magazine -
A fantastically timely book written by one of the smartest thinkers in Britain
Piers Morgan -
A powerful, timely and sadly necessary book
Richard Dawkins -
Doyle’s book is terse, restrained, and as carefully argued as a QC’s summing-up in a top-drawer courtroom drama . . . a beautifully balanced and comprehensive overview
The Critic
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