On Tuesday last week, I wrote a piece disagreeing with Crawley’s suggestion that it should be illegal for record stores to sell music containing lyrics which call for violence against gay people. The idea that this constitutes clear, direct incitement to violence is, as far as I can see, unsubstantiated. I later went [...]
John Wright, Tommy Boyd discuss Beenie Man
I made a brief stopover on PlayRadio UK yesterday during Tommy’s show, where the familiar matters of freedom of speech were being hashed out in Boyd’s own inimitable way. I came on for a couple of minutes to discuss Beenie Man, a topic prompted by William Crawley’s article last week. (Incidentally, William links [...]
Crawley on free speech
Today I take issue with my old friend William Crawley, who uses the opportunity of the Oxford Union free speech debate to raise another issue of free speech:
“Into the mix of questions about what limits we should place on public speech, let’s add this: ‘Hang chi chi gal wid a long piece of rope’. That’s [...]
