CENSOR HUMOUR FAILURE
WHERE exactly does the
Telegraph
stand on freedom of speech?
The paper devoted a front-page splash and editorial last week to attacking a suggestion from the Cabinet Office’s honours forfeiture committee that peculiar plumber Charlie Mullins could be stripped of his OBE for making social media posts in what the paper said “might be termed a robust manner”. Illustrating where the Telegraph’s current judgement on robustness lies, Mullins had called Sadiq Khan “the Muslim mayor” and suggested “someone should kill him”.