Pub landlords will be turned into “banter police,” venues will be less likely to book edgy performers, and universities will be gifted a lawful reason to rescind invitations to controversial guest speakers under reforms to workers’ rights that form part of the newly elected U.K. Labour government’s ongoing war on free speech.
To be sure, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already done some shocking things to attack free speech — encouraging the police to record more Orwellian “non-crime hate incidents” against people who upset members of supposedly “marginalized” groups, for instance, as well as stopping commencement of a law designed to tackle cancel culture at universities, and developing a “conversion practices” ban that will punish parents, doctors, and teachers who dissent from gender ideology.
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