One racist tweet wouldn’t ordinarily generate so much discussion. On Elon Musk’s X, they’re now 10 a penny. But Northampton childminder Lucy Connolly and the 51 words she posted in the wake of the Southport killings last summer – in which she said ‘set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards [meaning migrants] for all I care’ – have become a key test in our commitment to freedom of speech, which far too many are failing.
