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Free Expression Is No Offence
  • Published: 10 January 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141913032
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Free Expression Is No Offence

An English Pen Book



A law criminalizing incitement to religious hatred has been high on the Labour Government's list of priorities. It is a law with wide-ranging implications for freedom of expression in Britain: it could be used to censor anyone - whether writer, comedian or person in the street - who wishes to make a statement about religion that others might find offensive. Free Expression is No Offence tackles the issue of free speech in the post-9/11 world from a variety of angles. Its authors draw on their wide-ranging experience to show just why it is that attempts to curtail our freedom must be vigorously resisted by anyone who wants all faiths and none to live peaceably side by side and our many cultures to thrive.

  • Published: 10 January 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141913032
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

About the author

Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi was the deputy director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts before she became a full-time writer. Her non-fiction includes Freud's Women (with John Forrester) and a number of books about contemporary culture, including Losing the Dead. Her novels are Memory and Desire, Dreams of Innocence, A Good Woman, The Things We Do for Love, The Dead of Winter and Sanctuary. She lives in North London.