Starmer’s war on banter
from spiked:
Toby Young on Labour’s plan to sanitise pub chatter.
The British state’s war on free speech often seems sinister and absurd in equal measure. Posting a meme can lead to your arrest. Playground spats between schoolkids are recorded as ‘non-crime hate incidents’. The chief prosecutor issues stern warnings to social-media users to ‘think before you post’. Yet as incredible as it may sound, the prospects for free speech in the UK could be about to get even worse in 2025. Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, warns that several bills proposed by the new Labour government, on everything from employment rights to football regulation, are set to further stifle our free speech and sanitise public life.
Toby was the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. What follows is an edited extract from the conversation. You can listen to the full thing here.
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