Blackadder preserves our right to be insulting: Ministers agree to amend laws after campaign led by Rowan Atkinson

by Tim Shipman and James Slack
The Daily Mail (UK)
January 15, 2013

https://www.legal-project.org/3791/blackadder-preserves-our-right-to-be-insulting

Excerpt:

Ministers agreed to scrap a law outlawing 'insulting words or behaviour' last night after a campaign led by comedian Rowan Atkinson.

Home Secretary Theresa May announced a dramatic U-turn yesterday saying the government would ditch the contentious words from the Public Order Act amid fears that they are strangling free speech.

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