Britain's Speech Police: How The State Learned To Fear Its People

Britain's Speech Police: How The State Learned To Fear Its People Authored by Paul Birch via The Daily Sceptic, Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn't quite a police state (not yet anyway), neither is it a country in which the individual can any longer speak without glancing over his or her shoulder. The old compact of a liberal society was simple - the state punished genuine criminality, while opinion was left to the rough justice of argument, satire...