Ben Elton exclusive: ‘It’s a myth you can’t speak freely anymore’

Stand-up legend Ben Elton (Image: DAVID LEVENE / EYEVINE, BBC) Although it happens after our meeting, the Stewart-Shakespeare brouhaha seems in keeping with our conversation.  While concerned at the modern tendency to take offence, the stand-up legend, Shakespeare superfan and Upstart Crow creator strongly believes context is king when it comes to free speech. Unlike […]

Museum of African American History is freely digitizing home movies

Humanity has access to more data than ever before, but there’s still so much media scattered around the world that might rot away before it can be preserved. The National Museum of African American History and Culture is launching an initiative to save some of the most precious — home movies — by digitizing, for […]

WARRIORS RESPOND TO TRUMP: ‘There is nothing more American than our citizens having the right to express themselves freely’

Win McNamee/Getty Images The Golden State Warriors issued a statement in response to President Donald Trump’s tweet on Saturday in which he said he would not invite the Warriors to the White House after comments made by Stephen Curry. “While we intended to meet as a team at the first opportunity we had this morning […]

Right to speak freely about engineering is subject of 1st Amendment lawsuit

Mats Jarlstrom is in a First Amendment legal battle over the right to discuss traffic-light times in Oregon. An Oregon engineer who has been trying for years to convince state officials to elongate yellow traffic light times has a new cause: the First Amendment. Mats Jarlstrom, who has an engineering degree from Sweden, has performed […]