Weekend round up: Who wants to be a censor?
The ignorant, the envious, the utopians and the jobsworths
Oompa-Loompas: happy slaves?
Greetings,
In 1644 John Milton published the Areopagitica one for the first defences of freedom of speech in the English language. The righteous Presbyterian politicians, who controlled Parliament in the later stages of the English civil war, had the self-confidence of today’s puritans. They were the elect, God’s chosen, and …
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