‘Spongy or inaccurate’ terms could lead to failure to protect people and ‘overzealous’ enforcement, says terror laws adviser
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‘Spongy or inaccurate’ terms could lead to failure to protect people and ‘overzealous’ enforcement, says terror laws adviser
‘Spongy or inaccurate’ terms could lead to failure to protect people and ‘overzealous’ enforcement, says terror laws adviser
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Free speech could also be restricted by the introduction of a non-statutory definition of Islamophobia, according to barrister…

Conflating a religion with a race is an affront to freedom of speech

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