Poppy-burning and the limits of tolerance

Anjem Choudary is the man the tabloids love to hate, but does the government risk turning him into a free speech martyr?

By Nelson Jones

So Theresa May has given in to the temptation, so often indulged by her New Labour predecessors, of banning a group associated with Anjem Choudary, the media’s favourite Muslim radical. The latest news is that premises associated with the proscribed group have been raided by the police. “They’ve got nothing on me,” was Choudary’s reaction today. “Obviously it’s inconvenient, but that doesn’t stop me propagating what I believe.”