we do have a free-speech problem

Ever since he taunted Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, I have disliked JD Vance. I sincerely hope he never becomes president. So it goes against the grain to admit that I fear he got something right when he said Britain has a free-speech problem.

There is, obviously, no objective measure of this. Since few people believe that the right to free speech is absolute, we have to find a balance between people’s right to express themselves as they wish and society’s interest in peace and harmony. The reason I think there’s a problem is the increasing number of cases which I reckon that reasonable people would feel we’re getting wrong.

The case of Lucy Connolly, whose appeal against her sentence was rejected by the

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