Police forces are failing to train officers on the importance of free speech while teaching them obscure pronouns, according to a report from the Free Speech Union into the free speech crisis in British policing. The Times has the story.
The Free Speech Union (FSU) said there was a “free speech crisis” in British policing and that forces were not emphasising the importance of freedom of expression to officers.
Officers are undergoing tens of thousands of hours of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) training in which they are told that gender is “culturally determined” and about the use of pronouns including “fae” and “faer”. At least one force still uses the “genderbread” diagram, which illustrates the notion that biological sex is irrelevant to an individual’s innate sense of gender.
The FSU’s freedom of information request revealed that forces were spending “little or no time” on the right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Its report, entitled ‘The Urgent Need to Teach Police About Free Speech‘, argues that the balance needs to be redressed.
The organisation says that EDI training should not have a chilling effect on free speech, arguing there have been incidents of police intervention resulting in arrests which should never have been a criminal matter in the first place.
The report states: “While a belief in the concept of ‘gender identity’ as distinct from biological sex certainly reflects the views of some members of the public, it is very far from a consensus position. It is therefore concerning to find police EDI training endorsing one side in this ongoing debate.”
The report says that “partisan” EDI training has led to arrests of gender-critical speakers, citing the arrest by Gwent police of a women’s rights campaigner after they received complaints she had put up stickers perceived as “offensive” to transgender people.
Suella Braverman, the home secretary, recently said that freedom of speech was the “lodestar” of the UK’s democracy and that police must not be complicit in shutting it down. Her comments were prompted by the row over four pupils in Wakefield who were suspended for a week after a copy of the Quran was “slightly damaged”.
West Yorkshire police recorded the episode as a non-crime hate incident but acknowledged that no crime had been committed. New guidance on non-crime hate offences, published this month, requires police to prioritise freedom of expression ahead of people taking offence.
According to the FSU, 25 of the 32 forces in England and Wales that responded to it (78%) were providing no or inadequate training on Article 10.
In one example, Essex police dedicated an estimated 38,750 hours of police time on EDI training – including a £193,000 contract with a private company that urged the public to “be more alpaca” because the animals were “naturally inclusive”.
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“U.K. health chiefs warn new Covid variant may be rapidly spreading” – The new Covid variant ‘Pirola’ may already be spreading across the world, according to a panel of Government ‘experts’ including ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson, according to the Mail. Ooh, mother!
(Yawn)
“YouTube prepares for new Covid lockdowns with gaslighting ‘misinformation’ rules” – If you thought that YouTube had relaxed its medical ‘misinformation’ rules around Covid, then you’re in for a nasty surprise, says Phillip James in Vision News.
That said, it still does NOT follow that they are planning another lockdown. That specious idea was from Alex Jones’s site Infowars, which should be taken with at least a grain of salt, if not a whole pound. It would truly be the height of political and career suicide for anyone in power to do anything like that now, as the majority of people have already been red-pilled and will not fall for that again.
Sadly, I think quite a few people enjoyed being locked down and paid to stay at home and do nothing, so they live in hope of another one. Seeing the government has just about bankrupted the country by doing it once, I don’t see how they could ever, financially, do it again, and yes, most people would just ignore it.
Hmm. As Hancock stated clearly at the inquiry, he would lock down again and lock down harder. They’d do it at the drop of a hat. Get real. Things have changed, and not for the better.
But the difference is that this time they will be met with fierce resistance from a critical mass of people, God willing. Most people have achieved “herd immunity” to their lies after being red-pilled the hard way for so long.
“Wearing masks in hospitals may have had little impact on COVID-19 transmission during Omicron wave” – According to new research, mask requirements in a London hospital during the first 10 months of omicron made no discernible difference to reducing hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections, reports Medical Xpress.
In other news, water is wet and the sun rises in the east. And another study finds that bears in fact do their business in the woods.
But seriously. If they don’t work in hospitals, combined with all the other strict precautions, that means they really don’t work anywhere.
I’ve just had a shouty letter from the NHS inviting me for a “free” health screening appointment. With the demand that I wear a ‘face covering’ during the procedure. I sent them a shouty reply.
Wow
It would have been interesting to see how they’d reply if you asked for the scientific evidence which underpins this muzzling request. Actually I’d be interested to see what a FOI request would produce. When I had my Hull Infirmary experience on a previous visit home all they kept repeating, parrot fashion, was ”It’s guidelines, Trust guidelines”, nobody could offer me the scientific rationale, they were just demonstrating that they were pig-ignorant, automaton Covidian cultists. Guidelines trump evidence – based practice apparently. The laugh was, and I pointed it out to them, that Scarborough down the road had zero mask regs. Bloody retards.
“The lab leak illusion” – The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, says Jamie Palmer in Quillette, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Michael P. Senger has been saying this for years now. The lab leak theory is the “Scooby Doo” narrative that the powers that be wanted us to discover. Regardless, whether it was natural or a lab leak, the virus really wasn’t all that special after all. A super-flu at worst, which happens from time to time, and a pretty humdrum virus overall, that is now devolving into the new common cold, basically. The mad scientists’ GOF abilities are (thankfully) quite inferior.
NEW PODCAST OUT FROM THE REAL NORMAL PODCAST!
We’re back on the airwaves talking about the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ and her massive hull…plus we’re picking the bones out of light fingered museum curators. We cover the awful story of Lucy Letby, whilst also chatting about the usual madness that swirls around the woke, namely Graham Linehan.
https://therealnormalpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1268768/13442825-ep-53-get-your-big-bibby-stockholm-s-out
PLUS SILLY SONGS you unfortunate proles!
More on the Lucy Letby case here. The site linked in Clare’s tweet is very comprehensive and casts reasonable doubt on everything, furthering the case for a retrial for Lucy, in my opinion.
”Based upon published peer-reviewed research, and with the guidance, advice, and insights of other scientists, it is the view of Science on Trial that the scientific information put before the court by the expert witnesses is very simply inaccurate, misleading, and in many places false. The expert witnesses in this case are likely aware that the claims they have made lack necessary scientific findings, and if they were to write these claims up and attempt to submit them for publication, their submission would be quickly rejected.”
https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1693550419727835414
I didn’t see the interview with Graham Linehan on Talk TV, in which the interviewer was allegedly rude and gave her other guest ( somebody who wants to legalize paedophilia ) way more respect, but it all makes sense now. I guess Clown World logic dictates that deviants and paedos deserve sympathy and understanding while those who raise concerns about child welfare and stick to biological facts are persecuted.
”A notorious trans activist known for sending pornographic images to woman critical of gender ideology reportedly prepared Talk TV presenter Rosanna Lockwood for her disastrous interview with Father Ted creator Graham Linehan. Rosanna Lockwood drew ample controversy after conducting what many described as an “ambush.”
Lockwood was blasted on social media following her interview with Linehan, a critic of transgender ideology, in which she called his views “extreme.” Linehan had appeared on Talk TV under the purported intention of discussing the cancellation of his comedy show due to his criticism of gender ideology.
Many noted that Lockwood did not treat other guests during the segment the same way, allowing infamous LGBT activist Peter Tachtell to speak uninterrupted. Despite calling into question the validity and appropriateness of Linehan’s views, Lockwood did not interrogate Tatchell on his history of pro-pedophilia sentiment.
Tatchell infamously called for lowering the age of consent, wrote chapters in two books where he argued that laws criminalizing adults for sexually abusing children do more harm than the abuse itself, and said during an interview that not all sex between adults and children is “harmful.” Tatchell has also been linked to members of the Pedophile Information Exchange, a now-defunct pedophile rights group.”
https://reduxx.info/trans-activist-defending-violent-trans-inmate-reportedly-prepped-talk-tv-journalist-for-interview-with-graham-linehan/
“The pain of Net Zero is coming sooner than you think” – The U.K.’s proposed bans on boilers and petrol cars will be economically devastating, warns James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
‘Any fines that firms incur will almost certainly be passed on to the consumer through price hikes’. No, no. Surely Vauxhall will swallow a £15k fine per car in order to keep selling £20k entry level Corsas?
I think these are the policies of a government which does not think it can win at the next General Election. It will leave poisoned policies which the new incumbents will either have to repeal or carry through – and either way lose the public’s approval.
Repealing such nonsense after the GE would secure a 10/15 year term for any party.
I take your point. I should have said lose some of the public’s approval if they carry through – and, of course, some others and the WEF if they repeal.
Just another statistic for TPTB to ignore.
”College basketball was mourning the loss of former University of Houston forward Reggie Chaney on Monday night.
Chaney passed away at the age of 23, according to multiple reports, though the cause of his death was not immediately known.
He had been set to join the AE Psychiko — a professional basketball team in Greece — according to the Houston Chronicle.
Chaney played two seasons for the Arkansas Razorbacks before he transferred to the University of Houston, where he played three seasons.
This past season had been his final one with the Cougars and he was named American Athletic Conference’s Sixth Man of the Year.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/former-houston-cougars-basketball-star-reggie-chaney-dies-at-23/
Why the hell do the MSM keep referring to Ferguson as an ‘epidemiologist’? An academic with 2 physics degrees, who shows zero self awareness of all his previous forecasting errors, driven by schoolboy coding, does not an epidemiologist make.
Agreed..found this in my ‘archive’ from 2020…..so it’s still the same question, why, after all these wrong, egregious and utterly banana’s ‘predictions’ does anyone give him the time of day? Who should we ask?
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/so-the-real-scandal-is-why-did-anyone-ever-listen-to-this-guy/
[Imperial College epidemiologist Neil] Ferguson was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths. . . .
In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.
In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.
In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a “reasonable worst-case scenario” was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.
…that’s before we get to the great Convid scam?? Nice work if you can get it!!?
Have 10,000 virtual up-votes
For the same reason that lifelong communist and clinical psychologist Susan Michie was never off our screens (YouTube in my case, not MSM) during the pandemic pontificating about Covid and spreading lies and misinformation.
Both Professor Pantsdown and Hatt Mancock are really far too disgraced to be taken even remotely seriously at this point. A heckler’s veto and a two-finger salute (or one finger, in the USA) is the only appropriate response when they open their big mouths.
If I didn’t already believe from the very beginning that something was seriously wrong with the American narrative on Ukraine…and didn’t make sense…this would make me go huh!
WTF!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/hawaii-announces-plans-ukraine-independence-day-raise-money/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hawaii-announces-plans-ukraine-independence-day-raise-money
Hawaii is holding a “Ukraine Independence Day Event” on Aug 26th at Magic island to raise money and awareness for the War in Ukraine.
They are still digging up the charred remains of victims in Lahaina. There are over 1,000 people missing.
Maybe they should put a pause on the Ukrainian fundraiser? At least until they find all the bodies of the missing children.
But it is a committed leftist state – so it won’t matter.
““The West is losing the plot”. Too late, that happened some years ago. Around about the time of the invasion of Iraq I would say, and those illusive WMDs.
or elusive, take your pick
No surprise. They don’t work in stopping the spread of infection.
https://brownstone.org/articles/studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/
And the tweet by a UK Surgeon below tells us all we need to know. The use of masks was to oppress us.
Nice one, and very timely, I’ve saved it in case I get a response from the NHS consultant that I’ve just shouted at. He started it.
To be fair, here is a quick demo of just how effective masks are at preventing respiratory virus spread;
https://twitter.com/susantananda3/status/1598935763823243264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1598935763823243264%7Ctwgr%5E713f4f8e406e8fd085af570a6ad774968b89e64a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatimes.com%2Ftrending%2Fanimal%2Fvideo-of-deer-gracefully-crossing-gate-586736.html%3Futm_source%3Dmsn.com
Did somebody say a new variant called PAYOLA ?
LOL. Right up there with MONEYPOX.