I DON’T know about you, but these days it feels as though the very things that define our once great country are now continually under attack. Our history , identity, culture, values, and way of life. And now, as a string of shocking discoveries reflect, our free speech.
If you want to see how our free speech is under attack, then look no further than the astonishing treatment of Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson . On Remembrance Sunday, a day reserved to pay respect to our fallen ancestors who gave their lives so we can have these freedoms, she suddenly found the police at her door. They arrived, Gestapo-style, telling her that an anonymous accuser — sorry, a “victim” — had reported a (now-deleted) year-old tweet of hers, claiming it was “offensive”.
READ MORE IN OPINION The police refused to tell her which of her tweets had been reported nor who had made the accusation against her. While the police later dropped the case after a national outcry, in the days since, similarly shocking cases of ordinary people being investigated for things they have said or posted online have come to light. Utterly insane As The Sun has revealed, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The recording of a hate crime after somebody blamed their “rough” haircut on a discussion with the barber about the war in Ukraine . The German woman who was likened to a “rottweiler” and had the case written up as “racial abuse”. Most read in The Sun The man who was investigated for �.