Writing in Spiked, Claire explains why the Battle of Ideas festival is the antidote to cancel culture, conformism and the state’s attempts to control the narrative.
“…there is no room for complacency. Everyone claims to believe in free speech – until someone says something they dislike. That produces a censorious tit-for-tat cancel culture, not just on the left but increasingly on the right. Instead, we must uphold free speech as a principle for all. And we need to start exercising our free-speech muscles that risk atrophying in an era of progressive censorship.
That is why the Battle of Ideas, the original free-speech festival, matters.”
Read the full article on Spiked. And find out more about the festival on the Battle website.