The shocking police doorstepping of Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson last week has rightly sparked grave concern about the parlous state of freedom of speech in Britain. For a tweet she posted last year, Pearson is under investigation for “stirring up racial hatred” under the Public Order Act 1986, which regular readers will know can carry penalties of years behind bars. In a period when pro-Gaza marches were flooding the capital every Saturday, Pearson reposted a video showing two south Asian-looking men holding a green and red flag on a British street next to a group of police officers. “How dare they,” she wrote. “Invited to pose for a photo with lovely peaceful British Friends of Israel on Saturday police refused. Look at this lot smiling with the Jew haters.”
It has struck me that many of the free speech advocates to criticise the authoritarian investigation into Pearson this week have done so on what one might call empirically minded lines. Where is the evidence, for instance, that any disorder did actually result from Pearson’s post? One prominent human rights lawyer, arguing in the Telegraph that Pearson did not deserve a visit from the police, has said that an investigation should only have proceeded “if damage has demonstrably been done during the time [the tweet] was up”. Assessing whether or not the tweet ought to have merited such a heavy-handed response, Pearson and her lawyers have looked carefully at the wording and concluded that it does not meet the “threshold” for criminality.
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Political poster from Reading, Fobney Street, close to the Civic Centre. The last line of the text with the yellow background is particularly noteworthy.
Can you please post what it says as I have tried to blow it up and it is blurry…..thanks.
Reuters? Owned by the Thomson Group, a Canadian firm, which is owned by private capital firm Woodbridge (Thomson family). The Fake News gets a lot of their feeds from Thomson-Reuters. To use their feeds you as a journo must belong to the EU’s Journalism Centre or Project Centre. Both are funded by Thomson et al but also Kill Gates, Pharma and the usual array of little fascists.
Just a cockup and coincidence of course.
The Daily Sceptic should set up a fact checking division and relentlessly “fact check” Reuters, the BBC and the rest of the establishment tmouthpieces for all THEY’RE misinformation.
Not sure they’ll have the funds to employ all the staff they’ll need, though. I mean most of their news is comprised of lies, exaggerations or misrepresentations.
Darn right. How do these ‘experts’ justify to themselves that this is not good science?
We shouldn’t be surprised. We know their game by now. All the current wrong temperature predictions for Southern Europe using the alarmist red and orange colours plus ESA putting out temperatures that were actually surface temps and not air temps, the idea if to paint a picture of never seen before temperatures scorching Europe. Added to this no doubt will be the wildfires – many of which are deliberately ignited – that usually arrive during periods of hot weather. No wonder the JSO activists are having kittens.
Isn’t the Reuters chairman a board member of Pfizer and member of the WEF? Reuters is not an objective organisation and is utterly untrustworthy.
Money talks. In the last five years, just three US billionaires (Soros, Bloomberg, Bezos) have funded NGOs to employ at least 30,000 full-time-equivalent climate campaigners. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/22/barry-brill-for-billionaires-climate-lobbying-is-hot/
Press multiplies: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/media-giant-ap-news-sells-out-journalism-for-just-8m-from-billionaires/
Cash connects: https://jessicaweinkle.substack.com/p/climate-lobby-part-ii-clearpath-first?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1183310&post_id=120086992&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
‘Fact Checkers’, a.k.a. Liars
The warming is mostly all in the adjustments. ——-The temperature record has been fiddled about with more a than prostitutes knickers.
Notice the single red down arrow in all these comment sections. They all come from the same person, and most of us know who that is. ———Sure you are entitled to disagree. But that person is disagreeing not because what is getting said is inaccurate or wrong but because it dares to challenge dogma that they have probably decided to believe for the last 20 years and never have questioned any of it.————PS . If it is really about science then you question everything.
We’re suffering from asymptomatic global warming.
And so the liars continue to peddle their mendacity…
https://twitter.com/ChapelPervis/status/1682673564648980480
Brilliant piece, Chris. The voice of sanity.