The Today Debate: Has the UK given up on free speech
Amol Rajan is joined by a panel of experts to discuss whether free speech is at risk.
鈥淭he right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.鈥�
The words of the judge who overturned the conviction of a man for burning the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London last week.
A few days earlier the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood called pro-Palestine protests in the immediate aftermath of the Manchester synagogue attack un-British.
Freedom of speech 鈥� and its potential limits 鈥� has increasingly become a battleground in the 鈥渃ulture wars鈥� shorthand of our age.
Amol Rajan chairs the latest edition of the Today debate on the question: Has the UK given up on freedom of speech?
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