This week you may have spotted Roger Hirst, the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) for Essex, doubling down on his police force’s decision to investigate the journalist Allison Pearson.
To summarise the disturbing saga, two officers visited Pearson’s home on Remembrance Sunday and invited her for an interview over “an incident or offence of potentially inciting racial hatred online”. She is being investigated under Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986 for a deleted social media post allegedly “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”.
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