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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-british-first-amendment-wouldnt-save-free-speech/
> Could a British First Amendment be worded in such a way that it gives judges no wiggle room when it comes to prioritising free speech? Doubtful. After all, we couldn’t hope for anything more robustly worded than the actual First Amendment and even that wasn’t sufficient to protect freedom of expression in America for the first 140 years or so of its history. […]
> The solution, then, is not to pass a new law, but to repeal those laws that limit our freedom of expression. We should think of ourselves not as legislators, but as gardeners, pulling up all the weeds obscuring English Common Law. Admittedly, those weeds could be replanted by a Labour government, but it would have to restore them one by one, which would take up more parliamentary time than simply repealing a British First Amendment. We don’t have to copy our American cousins. All we need do is resuscitate the Common Law breach of the peace principle that they copied from us.
https://archive.ph/2yTms
> Could a British First Amendment be worded in such a way that it gives judges no wiggle room when it comes to prioritising free speech? Doubtful. After all, we couldn’t hope for anything more robustly worded than the actual First Amendment and even that wasn’t sufficient to protect freedom of expression in America for the first 140 years or so of its history. […]
> The solution, then, is not to pass a new law, but to repeal those laws that limit our freedom of expression. We should think of ourselves not as legislators, but as gardeners, pulling up all the weeds obscuring English Common Law. Admittedly, those weeds could be replanted by a Labour government, but it would have to restore them one by one, which would take up more parliamentary time than simply repealing a British First Amendment. We don’t have to copy our American cousins. All we need do is resuscitate the Common Law breach of the peace principle that they copied from us.
https://archive.ph/2yTms