Covid 1984 Tunnel-Vision v Rowan Atkinson On Free Speech

"As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed. We need to build our immunity to taking offence, so we can deal with the issues that perfectly justified criticism can raise."

Defend Free Speech: The forerunner of the Defend Free Speech campaign was called “Reform Section 5”. This speech by Rowan Atkinson at the launch event in Parliament in 2012 should be heard by every politician, journalist and campaigner before they start calling for laws to silence those they regard as ‘extremists’.