If Livia Tossici-Bolt gets her way, it might no longer be illegal to strike up a friendly chat with a stranger, wave and smile to a teenage girl getting off a bus, or offer a silent prayer to a young woman in distress.
Such “offenses” are not illegal in all places in the UK—not yet. But Ms. Tossici-Bolt, 62, who lives in Dorset, is already feeling the impacts of such blanket censorship and fears it could easily slip to become even more widespread. She is currently on trial for offering conversations to strangers near an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, within a designated censorial “buffer zone” where officials have made such acts criminal.
