We need to retire the word ‘disinformation’, the apparent dread of governments, BBC specialist reporters and NGOs everywhere.

All great truths begin as blasphemies - spiked

Today, good and noble people still believe that for certain books ‘to be placed in the hands of the common people [is] a dangerous thing’. But the now-defunct RRU reportedly revealed in a response to a Freedom of Information request that it had made requests for posts to be taken down.His trust was not only in God, but also in the capacity, as Clarke had it, of ‘the ignorant and the unlearned’ to enlighten themselves. They discuss the demonisation of ‘ultra-processed food’, the ban on disposable vapes, and why everyone is getting so fat. The temptation of many of us who believe in freedom of speech, in the liberty of all to utter their beliefs and ideas, is to damn this claim that ‘words hurt’ as a libel against public discourse. We see a pregnant woman on the front of this month’s Glamour magazine and they say it is a ‘pregnant man’.

The EU plot to humiliate Hungary - spiked

We see an industrial society that has extended life expectancy, reduced poverty and afforded us ever-greater protections against nature’s violent whims; they tell us it is a ‘climate catastrophe’, the harbinger of the death of billions. Then there are the unseen impacts of libel law, the stories that are never published because editors understandably fear being sued and potentially destroyed.But to keep spiked free we ask regular readers like you, if you can afford it, to chip in – to make sure that those who can’t afford it can continue reading, sharing and arguing. Witness the rise and rise of Safe Spaces on university campuses, designed to ensure students’ psychic security against the terrible threat of their hearing an idea they disagree with. But there can be no better demonstration of privilege than transwoman Gina Gwenffrewi complaining about once having to leave a pub a little earlier than intended.