Volume 35, Number 19 · December 8, 1988
Not-so Free Speech in Britain
By Peter Jenkins
There is a growing sense, here in Britain and abroad, especially in the United States, that freedom of speech is being diminished under Margaret Thatcher's government. The indictment rests on a number of specific instances. In the coming session of parliament Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 is to be rewritten. A White Paper setting out the government's proposals for revising the act was published last July.[1] It is Section 2 of the 1911 Act that, above all, has given Britain the unenviable reputation of being an unusually secretive society.
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