FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PLATFORM TO SPEAK
There is all the world of difference between freedom of speech and providing a platform for repugnant views. While I would be the first to say that the articulation of views which I hold repugnant would not be illegal, I do think that the Oxford Union was inept and foolish beyond belief in providing a platform for Nick Griffin, the Leader of the BNP, and David Irving, the Holocaust denier historian. All that this has served to do is to put them in the news and give them publicity. I cannot see the sense in that.
Thankfully nobody was hurt in the scuffles that ensued in Oxford, but they could have been, and understandably there were many protestors outside. It is to their credit the demonstration went off peacefully for the most part.
