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Tim Kiely
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@RedLionChambers barrister; Co-Convenor of Green Party SOC. Poetry pamphlet 'Hymn to the Smoke' out with @IndigoDreamsPub - available now! All views are my own.
Sep 7, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: A word about @Keir_Starmer speaking 'in defence of a free press' whilst condemning @XRebellionUK - I wouldn't normally but the Internet has found me in rebarbative mood this morning.

This is emphatically *not* an issue of ‘free speech’ being violated in some way by XR. Certainly XR are interfering with running of the affected newspapers, but it’s important to remember that 1) they are doing so while exercising *their own* rights to free expression, and 2) they still wouldn’t be able to rely on those rights to defend them from legal consequences