Should we limit freedom of speech to eradicate offensive speech?
Editor of Spiked Joanna Williams, award winning journalist David Aaronovitch and author and columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown debate the right to be offended.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Award-winning, Ugandan-born author and columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown currently writes for The Independent and The Evening Standard, and is the founder of British Muslims for Secular Democracy.
David Aaronovitch: Times columnist David Aaronovitch is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem and Voodoo Histories. In 2001 he won the Orwell prize for journalism, and the What the Papers Say columnist of the year award in 2003.
Joanna Williams: Dr Joanna Williams is Head of Education and Culture at Policy Exchange, and the associate editor of Spiked.
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