Hugo Rifkind Hugo Rifkind

Freedom of speech is a foggy issue with no absolutes — and that’s sort of the point

What Griffin, Irving, Blair and the teacher in the Sudan tell us about free speech

issue 01 December 2007

It is a weird business when stories combine, even if they only do so in the mind of the commentator. On our screens, Tony Blair is about to fret about Jesus, making him look like a loony again. In Oxford, David Irving and Nick Griffin are cast, preposterously, as defenders of free speech.

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