News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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A nine year-old who called a classmate a name and two secondary school girls who said another pupil smelt "like fish" are among thousands of people being investigated by police for non-crime hate incidents.
"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.
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.
The Free Speech Union and Fair Cop have threatened the Home Secretary with legal action over her calls to ramp up the recording of 'non-crime hate incidents'.
With the return of 'non-crime hate incidents', Labour is exposing its authoritarian underbelly, says Andrew Doyle. The threat that penalties for 'non-crime' represent to liberty cannot be overstated.
The reaction of the woke Left to the massacre of Israeli civilians makes it clear that their attempts to no-platform people in the name of making people feel 'safe' is just a rhetorical smokescreen.
Christian street preacher David McConnell was arrested, held in a cell for 14 hours, charged with 80 hours community service and a £700 fine, and reported to Prevent. His crime? ‘Misgendering’ someone.
On Monday, the Home Secretary issued a new Code of Practice on 'non-crime hate incidents' in what amounts to a huge victory for free speech.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are St. Gary's struggle to call people Nazis, the truth about the January 6th 'insurrection' and a victory against 'non-crime hate incidents'.
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