Another reason to hate laws against inciting hatred

Dear BBC, Your anti-fascist agenda is thinly veiled these days and your delight at the jail sentences handed out to two rather unsavoury individuals yesterday was obvious enough. What you failed to realise, however, was that these jail terms demonstrated how seriously the free speech of British citizens is now being curbed.

In a landmark case, neo-Nazis Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle are the first Britons to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website, having printed leaflets and controlled websites in the US featuring racist material, for which Sheppard was jailed for 4 years, 10 months and Whittle for 2 years, 4 months. [Letters from A. Tory] Read more