Twit the Wrong Tribe with a Tweet--Land in the Slammer

Appalling in the UK:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294727/british-freedom-speech-endangered-charles-c-w-cooke?pg=2

What an outrage. He should be executed. If he isn't then there should be a race riot... sorry, Anti-Austerity Protest.™

Is Free Speech protected under British Law like it is here in the Constitution Bill of Rights?

We have Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Quote :

Article 10 – Freedom of expression

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

Pretty shifty ground already, made worse by the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 introduced by Labour, amending the Public Order Act 1986.

Quote :

Section 29A
Meaning of "religious hatred"
In this Part "religious hatred" means hatred against a group of persons defined by reference to religious belief or lack of religious belief.

Section 29B:
(1) A person who uses threatening words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, is guilty of an offence if he intends thereby to stir up religious hatred.