WTH Is Britain Throttling Free Speech? Dominic Green Explains.

Dominic Green writes, “The war on free speech is about to violate
the most sacred recesses of British life—not the home or the
workplace, but the pub.” In legislation dubbed the “Banter Bill”,
Parliament is attacking the center of British life in a new
effort to hold employers accountable for staff’s hurt feelings
over third parties “offensive language”. Under the UK’s
two-tiered justice system, government is now in the service of a
minority to punish perceived miscreants for free speech. How did
the UK government arrive here? And how will the British restore
freedom and common sense?


Dominic Green is a fellow at the Royal Historical Society, a Wall
Street Journal contributor, and a Washington Examiner columnist.
He was previously a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research
Institute and editor-in-chief of The Spectator’s U.S. edition.
Dr. Green is the author of five books about British history and
society.


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