Speaking up and speaking out

Following last week’s inaugural International Academic Freedom Day (on 20 May), instigator Dennis Hayes reviews Nigel Warburton’s ‘very short introduction’ to free speech, and finds it rather misses the point that free speech is a foundational freedom. Sean Bell reports from a Brighton Salon event where Kenan Malik spoke about free speech and the legacy of the Rushdie Affair. And Ciaran Guilfoyle considers the sometimes unintended duplicity of much speech in a review of Ziyad Marar’s contribution to the Art of Living series, Deception. 

Meanwhile Jo Caird admires the atmospheric short stories of Philip Ó Ceallaigh, and in London theatre, Matt Trueman finds successful metatheatre at BAC’s Burst festival, while Miriam Gillinson reviews Oladipo Agboluaje’s Iya-Ile at Soho Theatre.

29 May 2009