Cambridge University has rejected a speech code that would have demanded “respect” for all views. Professors voted heavily for an amendment that all ideas and beliefs be “tolerated”. Nick Cohen hails this huge victory in Spectator UK and reminds us why free speech is the foundational value of universities and democracies alike.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


