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“The right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.” 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 ѿý Secretary Shabana Mahmood called pro-Palestine protests in the immediate aftermath of the Manchester synagogue attack un-British. Freedom of speech – and its potential limits – has increasingly become a battleground in the “culture wars” 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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