Topic: Brendan O Neill

Brendan O'Neill delivers a speech at the Oxford Union defending the "right to offend" as the heart of human progress. He argues that today's student leaders are "paternalistic" and "neo-colonialist" for suggesting that women and minorities need protection from "harmful ideas." O'Neill concludes that in a "choking climate" of conformism, there is a "duty to offend" the new guardians of decency.