On Free Speech and Banishing People to Desert Islands…
Mark Hanna is a Lecturer in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast. Free speech has become a curious creature in Northern Ireland. Nowhere is this more obvious than in The Newsletter and Ruth Dudley Edwards’ year-end list of people ‘to banish to a desert island’. It is perhaps not surprising that things have reached a point where elements of the press are expressing a preference for the ancient practice of banishing people to desert islands to curb their …