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The Blackadder and Mr Bean star criticised the ‘new intolerance’ behind controversial legislation which outlaws ‘insulting words and behaviour’.
Launching a fight for part of the Public Order Act to be repealed, he said it was having a ‘chilling effect on free expression and free protest’.
He went on: ‘The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.’


Gay rights campaigners from the group Outrage! were arrested under the Act when they protested against the Islamist fundamentalist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, which was calling for the killing of gays, Jews and unchaste women.

Former shadow home secretary David Davis, a leading campaigner for civil liberties, said: ‘The simple truth is that in a free society, there is no right not to be offended.

BMreformed wrote:The owners were taken to Court as they hurt the gay couple's feelings and they have had to pay the gay couple £3600.

Frequentflier wrote:This sort of thing is happening with some regularity these days, and I think it is unfair on the owners. That's something that would make my stomach churn if I were the owner!

ali12 wrote:I like Mr bean . He is a great artist . He can act in different roles .
So I think its his right to be upset as a man
But I hope he will overcome this soon .
Sara Chaudhry