In a scene straight out of East Germany's Stasi playbook, a grandmother got a visit from two plainclothes police officers – not for committing a crime, but for daring to criticise Labour councillors online.
"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.
Eugyppius paints a bleak picture of the state of democracy in Germany, as the Government seeks to use increasingly antidemocratic measures to suppress opposition.
What was most sinister about the striking off of Mr. Adil from the Medical Register for spreading Covid 'conspiracy theories' is that what the court was most concerned about was his refusal to recant his beliefs in public.
Spiked's Brendan O'Neill draws grim parallels between today's silencing of gender-critical voices and 1950s Hollywood's Communist blacklisting.
Fraser Hudghton of the Free Speech Union challenges Scotland's Hate Crime Act following news that from next year, 'hate crime' will encompass age-related threats or abusive language.
14 year-old Jack Watson writes that sometimes he wishes Orwell did not write 1984, as it seems to have become a manual and not just a novel.
In the last Weekly Sceptic podcast of the year, the talking points are Charles's lacklustre multicultural King's speech, the arrival of thought crime in the UK and the censorship of science during the pandemic.
Police officers arrested journalist Caroline Farrow after she was reported for allegedly posting a “grossly offensive message”. They forced entry into her home, seized her electronic devices and put her in a cell.
Read this piece for Mail+ about the new rainbow-coloured patrol cars the police have introduced in an effort to tackle hate crime. Isn’t it time the woke boys in blue started policing our streets, not our tweets?
