In the past week, a battle within the Liberal Democrat Party has become news, if only because it highlights the clash between those who believe in absolute free speech, and those who think free speech should be tempered by it not "causing offence" to others - which of course is not free speech. The latter is the sort of "free speech" seen in China, when you can talk about anything, as long as it doesn't offend the Communist Party, or in Islamist countries where you can't offend the local clerics.
It is anything but liberal.
Nick Cohen in the Guardian has a good summary of the battle. In essence it went like this...
- A Sunday morning BBC discussion programme included two people who wore t-shirts from "Jesus and Mo". Here it is
