The Government will have their own âspiesâ in apartment blocks next.
Amazon Alexa and Google assistant both fit the bill
Not in our house they donât!
Which is why we donât and never will use them.
Sadly no dinner parties and no paying guests Tory
Invite people to come and eat your food, and drink your home brew, and then argue, are you mad? 
Having read the article it is clear that the headline is rather sensationalistic as is often the norm with the press.
Clearly there is no intent to criminalise reasoned discussion over the dinner table as the offence referred to is that of âusing words or behaviour intended or likely to incite racial hatredâ, where the important element is the intention or likelihood of inciting racial hatred.
At present, if for example four co-workers engage in a private conversation in a workplace office, and such words or behaviour as above are used, then the offence is complete. Were the same conversation between the same people to take place in the home of one of them, then the offence is not committed.
The Law Commission is therefore questioning why the location of such a conversation should dictate whether it is a crime or not.
Itâs a tricky question, but before being too hasty with our decision making, perhaps we should consider whether words used by a clearly racially prejudiced speaker in someoneâs home, to an audience of 20 invited guests, should have the location of their speech exempt that person from prosecution if they are clearly intending to stir up racial hatred.
Exactly Matt - I didnât read the article (I donât even click through to Daily Mail articles, as even this helps finance them, by adding to the statistics they present to advertisers, etc) - but my first thought was âjust another attempt to propagate the âculture warâ right-wing extremists want to use to distract people from whatâs really happeningâ.
We were chatting at work the other day about various things as you do. My colleague went for her break and two of the things we had discussed popped up in related adds on her phone.One she had never searched,more concerning the other she had never heard of until we were all talking about an hour before. Her phone had been in her pocket during the chatting
If they are so racially biased they would not have been invited in the first place.
Also no Brexiteers invited here!
We have friends who have different opinions to us on a number of subjects. And sometimes the debates are very heated! But never personal attacks, just the ponts of viewâŚ
So yes, one couple we socialise with vote for Marine Le Pen but that doesnât mean they are not welcome in our house (since we know no english people in this area thatâs the nearest I can get to a Brexiteer). I dislike the fact that humans canât remember that above all we are all human, and everything else is secondary.
Hear Hear Jane
Surely non racially prejudiced people can have a conversation about racial prejudice though.
Of course they can, but they are not so likely to be offensive.
I think we are in danger of drifting away from the core of the matter which is whether the location of where words or behaviour intended or likely to incite racial hatred are used should dictate if a criminal offence is committed or not.
The words themselves may not be offensive, and indeed there are those who can be very polite in their intent to incite racial hatred. Whether the words used are offensive or not, or whether those words cause offense or not, is not the matter in question, but rather it is the intent of the person who utters those words that is the crux of the matter, and such remains the case even if they fail in their endeavour.
So if the words cannot be construed as offensive, how do you know what is going on in the mind of the speaker?
Establishing mental intent is never an easy thing to do. Many things have to be taken together as a whole picture, such as the circumstances in which the words were used, the other people present, the entire content of the conversation including the contributions of others, the surrounding political and social circumstances of the era, and crucially, whether 12 jurors are going to be convinced of the intent of the offender having regard to all the circumstances.
You can never know precisely and completely what was in the mind of the speaker, you can only deduce from within your own frame of reference what may have been in her mind, as well as what you think she said.
And you must always be open to the possibility that your deduction could be wrong, to include being fatally misjudged.
As am l in deducing your own thinking on the topic. Think âDevilâs advocacyâ?