HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 23 articles in category 'Free speech'. In defence of Sam Samuel Williams and his fifteen seconds of fame and lifetime of regret. Posted on UTC 2025-10-16 09:16 Words: 1,254; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for March The EU rearms | Answer the door with style | Stop the war in Ukraine Posted on UTC 2025-03-01 02:01 Words: 743; reading time: 3 minutes Immigration and the lost world Immigration: the great unforced error which transformed Britain — and sealed tongues. Posted on UTC 2024-02-23 14:50 Words: 6,386; reading time: 29 minutes Scrapbook for May Gentian | The social media censors Posted on UTC 2022-05-01 02:01 Words: 533; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for October Social media filtering | Swiss healthcare | Website changes Posted on UTC 2020-10-01 02:01 Words: 605; reading time: 2 minutes A book burning The Frankfurt Book Fire of 1758. Posted on UTC 2020-02-01 08:02 Words: 1,886; reading time: 8 minutes Hate speech sanitizer A simple tool for those who don't want to cause offence. 'So shines a good deed in a naughty world'. Posted on UTC 2019-10-26 16:14 Words: 1,032; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for April Blending in | David Lama | Sunday morning coming down | Lest we forget | To leave or not to leave… Posted on UTC 2019-04-01 02:01 Words: 1,340; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for March Pete North: defiant to the end Posted on UTC 2019-03-01 02:01 Words: 344; reading time: 1 minute Blasphemy redux The unpleasant face of secular piety. Posted on UTC 2018-11-06 16:23 Words: 1,407; reading time: 6 minutes The New Hambacher Fest 2018 Those right-wing thugs winding us up again. Good job so few people heard about it. Posted on UTC 2018-05-08 14:35 Words: 2,810; reading time: 12 minutes 22 February 1943: the White Rose Hans and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst: guillotined on this day 75 years ago. Posted on UTC 2018-02-24 15:33 Words: 950; reading time: 4 minutes Kippered Kirsty: a lesson to us all In defence of the unreasonable, the bloody-minded and the pig-headed amongst us. Posted on UTC 2018-02-21 10:12 Words: 1,077; reading time: 4 minutes The UK Communications Act 2003 The process is the punishment, yet again. Think on. Posted on UTC 2017-10-18 10:53 Words: 782; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for September Last supper [updated] | A century of progress | Please, Lord, let they handmaid depart in peace (ASAP). | Keeping an eye on the Germans | The school run – alpine style | How to become a published author Posted on UTC 2017-09-01 02:01 Words: 726; reading time: 3 minutes Herd management The knock on the door in the night. It's for your own good. Really. Posted on UTC 2017-06-25 11:22 Words: 1,220; reading time: 5 minutes Freedom of speech Alive and well and at ease in Swizerland, its home since the 18th century. Posted on UTC 2016-10-23 14:30 Words: 856; reading time: 3 minutes Channelled speech Decorating the slaughterhouse with geraniums. Posted on UTC 2016-09-19 09:23 Words: 1,575; reading time: 7 minutes Franz's belljar The belljar of the Austrian Emperor Franz II comes down over his people. Young composers included. Posted on UTC 2016-09-13 07:18 Words: 5,510; reading time: 25 minutes The other Spaun Crazy uncle Franz Seraph von Spaun: an heroic life of principled resistance bordering on the psychotic. Posted on UTC 2016-09-05 10:58 Words: 6,675; reading time: 30 minutes Scrapbook for May Equation | Not a good end | The Donald | How to feel inadequate | Unbalanced revulsion | Le Temps des cerises Posted on UTC 2016-05-01 02:01 Words: 1,027; reading time: 4 minutes Do not sleep… …while the stewards of the world are busy. Posted on UTC 2016-04-13 15:31 Words: 1,044; reading time: 4 minutes M'learned wag The search for wit in lawyers continues. Posted on UTC 2015-12-15 08:27 Words: 232; reading time: 1 minute
