It is truly rare when someone you have never met before, know little about and have seemingly few things in common with can affect your entire day, changing your attitude and uplifting your mood. This is what twenty-year-old Cork native …
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Professor Brian Cox addresses the Phil to talk populism, philosophy and physics
Trinity Life editor Úna Harty heads along to the Q&A session with the Manchurian popular science communicator Brian Cox
Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox descended upon the GMB this afternoon to greet science and non-science Trinity students alike. The ‘Wonders of…’ presenter and the author/co-author of over 950 scientific publications and brought this rhetoric to the chamber with his …
Is no-platforming the right approach?
Quashing free speech has frightening connotations. While no-platforming a transphobe may seem tempting depending on your beliefs, would this be preferable to opening a dialogue on the prejudice the trans community faces?
Offence Versus Incitement: Notes from the Council of Europe Free Speech Conference
Offence fuels debate, but hate speech stifles it. Where should we draw the line?
Head to Head: Free Speech Should Never Be Limited
Guillermo Dillon and Matthew Collins debate the value of total free speech.
Maryam Namazie speaks at the Phil after cancelled SOFIA talk
Namazie’s speech touched on her struggle against the “culture of offence”
Human rights activist Maryam Namazie spoke to the Phil yesterday, on her continued struggle against the “culture of offence”.
The renowned secularist, who was born in Tehran but fled Iran following the 1979 Revolution, spoke at length about her belief …
Let Namazie speak
Even if you believe that racist or Islamophobic speakers ought not be allowed on university campuses, Maryam Namazie is neither. She was banned from speaking at Warwick because the SU believed that her ideas were wrong.
Whoever the argument about inviting offensive guest speakers on campus is about, it’s not about Maryam Namazie. Namazie is an Iranian who escaped with her family after the revolution of 1979. She studied in America and began her career aiding …