Americans like me are troubled by Britain's free speech crackdown

As an American Anglophile, I can't defend Britain

For much of my career, beginning as a foreign adviser to the U.S. Congress, I have proudly stood as one of America’s strongest advocates for Britain.  I have defended her history, her institutions and her role as the original home of liberty.  I have championed the UK in forums throughout the US and in publications across the globe, reminding audiences that our shared values of liberty and democracy, bequeathed by our mother, England, form the b…

Americans like me are troubled by Britain's free speech crackdown

The world does not need a Britain that jails her patriots. It needs the Britain that once taught us all to be free