The right to be downright offensive By Jonathan Duffy BBC News Magazine “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist,” wrote Salman Rushdie. It’s 15 years since Rushdie’s novel, the Satanic Verses, earned the Booker Prize-winning novelist death threats, but the question persists. The decision by Birmingham‘s Rep theatre to call off a play
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