News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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For Britain's Thought Police the Allison Pearson fiasco achieved its purpose, says Steven Tucker: increasing people's fear to speak their mind. The investigation was dropped, but the threat still hangs over us all.
A former Metropolitan Police Commissioner has urged Ministers to review the use of non-crime hate incidents in the wake of the investigation into journalist Allison Pearson.
Essex police has dropped its investigation into Allison Pearson. Ex-copper Dominic Adler gives an insider's view of what has likely been going on behind the scenes, where, as he explains, the process is the punishment.
Roger Hirst, the Police Commissioner for Essex, seemed oblivious to the chilling authoritarianism displayed by his force in investigating Allison Pearson for 'hate'. Why are taxpayers paying for this, asks Charlotte Gill.
Why is it that in the 'Pyramid of Hate' the police rely on when deciding who to prosecute for 'hate speech' antisemitism is ranked below Islamophobia? New piece in the Jewish Chronicle.
Allison Pearson isn't under investigation for stirring up hatred, says Laurie Wastell. That's just a fig leaf. She's actually being targeted for committing heresy against Britain's new woke state religion.
Policing 'hate speech' is just the latest tool to enforce Left-wing orthodoxy. Non-crime hate incidents don't prevent real hate – they simply punish heretics for flouting the new woke public morality.
"Make Orwell Fiction Again!" declared Elon Musk when he heard about Essex Police's disgraceful doorstepping and investigation of award-winning journalist Allison Pearson over a year-old deleted tweet.
Journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police on Remembrance Sunday over a 'non-crime hate incident' linked to an online post. Law expert Dr Kyriakos N. Kotsoglou says it's high time free speech was restored.
"I’m not a Covid conspiracy theorist. I was right." Allison Pearson defends her pandemic record against detractors who still haven't noticed that sceptics got it right and conformists were consistently wrong.
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