Lunch hour lectures repository Autumn 2009
- The spirit of UCL
- Why psychiatry has to be social
- The new biology of ageing
- Dhoti, Suit and Trilby: M.K Gandhi and his opponents
- Seeing the invisible: Observing the dark side of the universe
- Tales of vampires and the undead
- Why the courts are as important as hospitals to the nation’s health
- The power of Lagerlöf
- Recession and the public health – what is the evidence?
- Liverpool to Liverpool
- A visual people and a visual language
- Living buildings: Towards sustainable cities
- The challenge of HIV refuses to disappear
- Studying dinosaur evolution – An early 21st century perspective
- The right to obscene thoughts
- The making of Johnson’s dictionary
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The right to obscene thoughts
23 July 2009
Tuesday 8 December
Professor Stephen Guest (UCL Laws)
This lecture discusses how genuine freedom must include all manner of thought, including the irrational, the bad, and the obscene, and how the recent new offence of possessing extreme pornography has breached this principle.
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