No place has utterly unregulated speech, the UK included -- except maybe Somalia, where you can say anything you like as long as you back it up with an AK-47.
There is sufficient freedom of speech for political activity, which is the speech most people are really concerned about. But you can't libel people, or try to incite violence, or sexually harass your co-workers. There are quite a number of ways in which the higher public good is served by constraining public behavior, including speech.
Read other answers by Ernest W. Adams on Quora:
- How do you show that the western values most of us care about, like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, democracy, human rights and so on, didn't come about through religion?
- What constraints are there on press freedom in the USA and the UK?
- Does the UK have the legal power to replace the Human Rights Act?
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