Labour-run council to reinstate fines for swearing

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Last year, the Free Speech Union said Thanet council’s plan was “the worst” example it had seen of the misuse of PSPOs, adding: “It effectively imposes a strict liability speech offence, with none of the safeguards which Parliament and the courts have deemed necessary when restricting people’s fundamental rights and liberties.”

Leila Mermelstein, The Telegraph, 15th July 2025.