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Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?
Mick Hume
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Description for Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?
Paperback. In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can't-Say-That. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 80.
Concise and Abridged Edition Do we really have the right to say the `wrong' thing? `I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd' Guardian In a fierce defence of free speech - in all its forms - Mick Hume's blistering polemic exposes the new threats facing ... Read more
Concise and Abridged Edition Do we really have the right to say the `wrong' thing? `I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd' Guardian In a fierce defence of free speech - in all its forms - Mick Hume's blistering polemic exposes the new threats facing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008126407
SKU
V9780008126407
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99-46
About Mick Hume
Mick Hume is a journalist and author. He is editor-at-large of Spiked and writes regularly on free-speech issues. He had a weekly column in `The Times' for 10 years, and was described as `Britain's only libertarian Marxist newspaper columnist'. More recently he has written in defence of freedom of speech and a free press in `The Times', the `Sunday Times', ... Read more
Reviews for Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?
`Superb...This is a first-rate polemic and the most important political book of the year so far' Rod Liddle `This is an important book, and couldn't be more timely. It's strong-minded, unafraid, determined to knock down all the various specious arguments against free speech, unapologetic about ... Read more