Tag: Hate speech

Modern elites have become fixated on banning 'hate', seeing it as the root of society's ills. But what would we humans be without our hatred, asks Paul Sutton. Where would be our art, our literature, our passion?

Police are recording more non-crime hate incidents than last year despite a crackdown on the practice, according to official data obtained by the Free Speech Union.

A biomedical scientist who called her Portuguese neighbour a "Spanish whore" during a row over a fire alarm was cautioned by police for a hate crime and struck off. No wonder the cops have no time to solve burglaries.

A month after the arrival of Scotland's Hate Crime Act and it appears reports of the demise of the Scottish Enlightenment may have been premature, no thanks to the SNP but due to the doughty spirit of the Scots.

Alas, once again a government has introduced a law to curb free speech and outlaw 'hate'. But if speech is so unpopular that some deem it hateful, that speech is the speech most worth protecting, says Lawrence Krauss.

Justin Trudeau to Humza Yousaf: "You think you can position yourself as the West’s most authoritarian 'liberal' political leader? Hold my Molson."

Could Justin Trudeau be prosecuted for encouraging genocide under the terms of his own 'anti-genocide' Online Harms Act, asks Steven Tucker. It may seem unlikely, but the Act is so poorly drafted that you never know.

Police Scotland staff have been given a script defending Humza Yousaf after he faced a deluge of hate crime reports.

We look over the border to Scotland with a sense of alarm and disgust at the extreme censorship now being imposed via the Hate Crime Act. But speech is already scarcely freer in England, says Ella Whelan.

Humza Yousaf has received more complaints under Scotland's new hate crime bill for his 2020 speech about "often being the only non-white person in the room" than J.K. Rowling, it was claimed today.