style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Nick Cohen is a raging bull, but much of the time he’s my kind of raging bull. He has similar contemporary heroes: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose intolerance of intolerance has, incredibly, often confined her to the admiration of the right; the late Maqbool Husain, an Indian artist whose paintings were suppressed by mobs; Salman Rushdie, blamed by many (still) for disturbing bigots with literature; and Flemming Rose, culture editor on Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that published controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. Cohen is prepared to discuss the nature of free speech seriously, without lapsing into lobby group blinkerdom.