Freedom of Speech

"A National Treasure"

 By Chris Webb

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represent any collective opinion of the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, or the University of Northampton]

On 26 November 2007 the Oxford Union debating society organised an evening debate on Free Speech, featuring David Irving, a British author tried and jailed in Austria during 2005 for denying the holocaust and Nick Griffin, the leader of the far-right British National Party, acquitted by a British court in 2006 of stirring racial hatred.

This provoked an angry protest from fellow students and trade union groups who planned to bus in hundreds of people in an anti-fascist protest, which the police hoped to counter with a “ring of steel” around the union building in the city centre.



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