Despite its recent, ahem, troubles, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is determined to press ahead with what its chair, Trevor Phillips, referred to as its “mission” in an article in Saturday’s Guardian. But while setting out his agenda for the autumn, Phillips briefly mentioned one proposal that made me pause. “There will be new work,” he wrote, on “hate crime against . . . religion and belief.”
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