If you can' t do that, stand up and defend yourself.

Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy.

This autumn the English branch of PEN, which defends the freedom to write, will launch a campaign against our libel law.

We have to recur to arms for guarding our national dignity.

The guardians of free speech in Britain aren' t above attempting a little suppression, either.