https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/30/can-free-speech-survive-keir-starmer/
The unrelenting assault on [free speech] since Sir Keir Starmer entered Downing Street in July has shocked even the most jaundiced of observers. Who could have predicted this time last year that scores of people would be prosecuted for offensive speech on social media following a brutal knife attack? That two police officers would turn up at the door of an award-winning journalist on Remembrance Sunday to interview her about a year-old tweet that she’d deleted within hours? That Britain’s record on freedom of expression would be so bad that it has turned us into a global laughing stock? All of which means that when speculating about what will become of free speech in 2025, we should assume the worst. […]
All of this probably sounds too horrific to be true. Is this government really going to blithely toss aside a right that has existed in this country to a greater or lesser degree since 1215? Judging from its merciless attacks on free speech since 4 July, you’d better believe it.
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