‘It’s a thin line between love and hate’ the Pretenders sang in 1983, but it’s one that legislators are eager to enforce. Western democracies as well as the European Court of Human Rights are so concerned about hate speech that they have not only criminalised its utterance, but, if the law commissions of Scotland and England have their way, will extend its sanction from the public to the private domain.
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