The Week That Matters (15-19 August, 2022)

"Tyrants always lock up the comedians first" Salman Rushdie

The Pen is Mightier than the Sword: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Are we still the same society, with the same ideals regarding free speech and anti-authoritarianism, that we were in 1989? Or has something meaningful changed in the West, since the Fatwa was issued on Rushdie’s head?

In 1989, it was clear who occupied the higher moral ground when it came to free sp…