Phelps at bay

Fred Phelps, infamous American preacher of the Westboro Baptist Church who believes only the seventy members of his own congregation will get into heaven and passionate advocator of death to homosexuals, has been denied entry to the UK. He was planning to arrive with his equally poisonous daughter to picket a play about a man killed for being gay. Whilst this proof of an infrastructure for the suppression of free speech makes me uneasy, I am glad that those nutcases will be stopped from setting foot in our comparatively calm, level headed nation.