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Free speach in th UK
The ab editor said The UK has no written constitutional right to free speech why is that?
I know they don't have a written constitution but why?
And are there laws protecting civil and democratic rights
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Yes, Yeah Bee, there is a code of morals for everybody. It is that fundamental essence of right and wrong, and following accepted standards of behaviour without reference to any religious prescription for good and evil.
There may be a philosophical argument surrounding right and wrong, and whilst those so interested pursue that on their Olympian heights most of us are happy to get along with each other without too much friction and exploitation.
It is kinda different yeah bee in the UK. perhaps because we dont have a written constitution, we are more aware of attacks on freedoms.
Today, their lordships have given an opinion on the legality of detention without trial in terrorist cases, basically telling the govt they are wrong in a poncey way, because they are Lords
Lord Steyn also gave a speech to the American bar saying he thought that detention at Guantanamo is unlawful. Not an awful lot happened but that rather pointed to what would happen in paragraph 2.
This is in contrast to written guarantees about due process and so on in the American consitution and the fact that a few hundred people have been detained without trial at an American base in Cuba, and the Supreme Court saying, erm the law doesnt apply to them.
(The Queen's writ runs in UK bases abroad just before you ask)