Defending free speech

“Little did we think that in a Borough like Hackney that the principal of free speech would become an issue. I find the Council’s attempts to restrict free speech through distorting facts in Hackney Today and attempting to ban authors from Council premises sinister in the extreme.”

13/04/10 Hackney have banned my election address from the Mayoral booklet that you will receive. Hackney Citizen.

And here is what Hackney don’t want you to see (needs a pdf reader)!

Links:

It’s official: Mayor thought author ‘too controversial’ for library – Hackney Citizen

Banned in Hackney – for going off-message about the Olympics – The Guardian