PETER HITCHENS: Paradise? No, but the Britain of my youth was FREE

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

When I spoke out in favour of free speech last week on Channel 4 News, I was unpleasantly surprised to find just how unpopular this view now is with the fashionable people who watch that programme.

My great sin was to suggest that the Britain of my youth had been much more free than it is now. 

Oh, yes, they sneered, free for people like you ��� white, heterosexual males. They suggested that, for anyone else, the country was a seething pit of r...