Author Douglas Murray says Scotland’s proposed hate speech legislation is “really pitiful” as it “isn’t freedom”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order Act in Scotland will go live on April 1.
Critics say the legislation is flawed as it could lead to people being prosecuted for comments made in their own homes.
“It’s an extraordinary thing, not least to happen in the country that of all the enlightenments gave us what I regard as being the greatest of the enlightenments,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“To see Scotland … reduced to this is really pitiful.
“People try out ideas around the dinner table; people make jokes around dinner tables; and people have a laugh around dinner tables.
“They form ideas, they try things out.
“Who would be the person who you would nominate to decide what could be said at any dinner table and all dinner tables in the land - and the answer is there is no such person.
“It will only be stopped if enough people say ‘no, no, this isn’t Scotland and this isn’t freedom’.”
12 мар 2024