Left-wing Irish bigots and right-wing British bigots: Is free speech only for my tribe?
The UK's authoritarian hypocrisies
Yesterday afternoon the British police charged Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh from the Irish language hip-hop group Kneecap with a terrorism offence.
His case has every chance of turning into a spectacular example of political and cultural hypocrisy. Today’s left and right want freedom for their supporters to incite violence but not for their political opponents.
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