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18 plus until the 14th of April 2024, Ties and C supply.

Since when did it become the business of the state to audit our emotions.

In effect, this is precisely what's happening by means of the various hate speech laws that have been implemented throughout Europe in recent years.

In Ireland, the imminent criminal justice bill

would represent one of the most draconian forms of hate speech legislation

yet produced.

And how is hatred defined in the bill?

Well, the following is a direct quotation.

Hatred means hatred against a person or a group of persons in the state or elsewhere

on account of their protected characteristics or any one of those characteristics.

So hatred means hatred. Glad we cleared that up.

This kind of circular definition is what we've come to expect from legislators when it comes to this most nebulous of

concept. In his book, censored, Paul Coleman helpfully includes all of the existing legislation

on hatred from across Europe, and in doing so he reveals that no two governments are able to agree on its meaning.

In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that there is no universally accepted definition of the expression hate speech,

and a manual published by UNESCO in 2015 accepted

that the possibility of reaching a universally shared definition seems unlikely.

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