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Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 December 2025
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
“Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not seek to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having”.
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