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...Education Secretary has tabled legislation to prevent ‘unacceptable silencing and censoring’ on campuses. To understand why free speech matters, as well as how we might deal with the difficulties it faces today, we need to understand how the idea came about. What is free speech? Free speech refers to the right to express opinions without censorship or restraint. It is...

...De Quincey’s notorious nineteenth century book, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, is also considered the first autobiographical account of drug addiction. It influenced not just generations of narcoticized writers but even medical opinion on the effects of opium for decades after its publication. In the Georgian era of 1821, opium – in the form of laudanum - was...