Free speech in the UK is supposedly guaranteed under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998. The Act specifies that such a right is limited by “formalities, restrictions, conditions or penalties prescribed by law as may be necessary in a democratic society”.
Yet the brutal truth is that in Britain today free speech is a mirage. It does not exist in anything more than theory. People can lose their jobs for holding beliefs which contravene state orthodoxy and we live in a society in which people now seem to believe that they have a right to be protected from the views of others.
