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The Right To Joke



Download Acrobat Reader (free) Page 1 of 19 There is, increasingly, a climate that regards some jokes as promoting unacceptable political or social attitudes and that such jokes should thus be subject to censorship... Research Report 37 THE RIGHT TO JOKE CHRISTIE DAVIES THE SOCIAL AFFAIRS UNIT © The Social Affairs Unit 2004 All Rights Reserved British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 907631 21 5 ISSN 0264 5262 37 Social Affairs Unit publications represent the views of their individual authors, not those of the Social Affairs Unit, its Trustees, or Director. Printed and bound in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd Online publishing by the Big Blog Company Start • Previous \|1 \|2 \|3 \|4 \|5 \|6 • Next • End

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