"The campaign which has united diehard rivals such as the National Secular Society and the Christian Institute, not to mention loads of MPs and even peers, to amend the 1986 Public Order Act to stop it being abused for the purposes of frivolous prosecution by the coppers.
Reformers want section 5 of the act amended so that the offence of using "insulting words and behaviour" should have the vague and subjective word "insulting" removed while upholding protection against threatening and abusive speech – that is to say, speech which threatens public order."
