Index Interview: The salami slicing of free speech
October 17th, 2012
Conservative MP Dominic Raab talks to Mike Harris about civil liberties, free speech and how he “wouldn’t lose any sleep” if the UK’s communications data bill were canned
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Tags: Tags: civil liberties, Comms Data Bill, Dominic Raab, freedom of expression, Media, Mike Harris, politics, Russia, surveillance, UK,
A new book attempts to cast the crisis in civil liberties as a left/right issue. But ultimately it is the timid, compliant climate of UK politics that is to blame, says John Kampfner