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The Law Society's Gazette, is generally quick to question government measures which seem to encroach on freedom of speech. Unfortunately it is often easier to preach than to practise.
Some 15 posts have been removed from this site today by the Censor simply because (so far as one can tell) they questioned the propriety of setting up an "LGBT Division". Maybe this was no more than the natural knee-jerk reaction of affronted political correctness, however depressing it is to find it countenanced by the legal profession's mouthpiece. More sinister, though, was the fact that when I and some others drew attention to this remarkable act of censorship, those comments too were immediately silenced. There seems a degree of paranoia in the Law Society's stance. Either it is right to exclude all opinions which don't conform to the liberal orthodoxy or it is wrong. If it is right, why be afraid to admit doing it? If it is wrong, why do it?