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“Britain’s Free Speech Problem”

by Big Brother Watch

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“Our groundbreaking new report, 'Britain's free speech problem: How growing restrictions are stifling speech online and offline’ reveals the bleak state of free speech in Britain today. It investigates how a patchwork of poor legislation, a ‘postcode lottery’ of policing, and a relentless stream of new restrictions are slowly limiting Britons’ free speech”

Download the report for free or read the key findings from here:

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/save-free-speech/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #FreeSpeech #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #PoliceState #Terrorism #TerrorismAct #OnlineSafety #PoliticalPolicing #Israel #ZionistLobbby #PalestinianGenocide #Censorship #CancelCulture

“White Flag Judgments: Palestine Action, Protest and the UK Courts”

by Binoy Kampmark in Savage Minds on Substack

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“The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino rather than a priestly haven of solemn judgment. It’s the justice of the punt, the throw of the dice, not the fairness of judicial deliberation, that prevails. That, at least, has been the prevailing view of Richard Ingrams, a co-founder of Britain’s rapier satirical publication Private Eye”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/white-flag-judgments

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“In the Past Two Weeks I’ve Been Arrested Twice - Once in Germany & Once in London – Freedom of Speech is Under Threat From Zionism”

by veteran Socialist and anti-Xionist campaigner Tony Greenstein in his latest blogpost

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“Last Saturday at the Nakba demonstration in London I held a placard ‘Globalise the Intifada’. I did this because Mark Rowley declared that he would arrest anyone who displayed a placard or uttered the words ‘Globalise the Intifada’.

I wanted to make it clear that the job of the Police is to implement the law not make the law. It is no business of London’s racist anti-Palestinian Police Commissioner to declare that certain slogans are illegal. When the Police start deciding what you can and cannot say we are on the road to a Police State”

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2026/05/in-past-two-weeks-ive-been-arrested.html

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“MET CHIEF SHOULD RESIGN OVER PALESTINE COMMENTS, EX-SENIOR OFFICER SAYS”

by Martin Williams in Declassified UK

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“A former Scotland Yard superintendent has backed calls for the Metropolitan Police chief to resign over his criticism of pro-Palestine protests.

Nusrit Mehtab – who was one of the UK’s top female, ethnic minority police officers – told Declassified that Sir Mark Rowley is ‘blurring the lines of operational policing and political positioning’”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/met-chief-should-resign-over-palestine-comments-ex-senior-officer-says/

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“I’M EX-POLICE. BANNING PALESTINE MARCHES IS WRONG”

by Nailah Sharif in Declassified UK

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“Senior police now claim that the marches have driven the rise in antisemitism, without explaining how protests that include Jewish groups can be deemed to be terrorising the same community it is asked to keep safe.

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Correlation is not causation. To prove the marches – rather than an external conflict – drive antisemitism, the Met would need offence-level data linking specific demonstrations to specific incidents.

That data has not been published, if it even exists.”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/im-ex-police-banning-palestine-marches-is-wrong/

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“Campaigners condemn GMP’s [Greater Manchester Police - my edit] ‘despicable’ ‘extreme violence’ vs anti-fascist protesters”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

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“In a statement, the Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP) group and Resist Britain First slammed physical and chemical attacks on non-violent protesters by police concealing their identities and numbers — who then prevented paramedics and ambulances reaching their victims. The groups also pointed out that the force showed no apparent shortage of resource when it came to restricting and attacking anti-extremist counter-protesters — yet allowed fascist marchers to roam and attack with impunity”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04/19/greater-manchester-police-despicable/

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“Video: Police ‘strangle’ doctor unconscious as she tries to help hunger striker”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

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“NHS medic, Olivia Brandon, has accused #SurreyPolice of strangling her until she lost consciousness. This incident occurred during a protest to secure help for a dying anti-genocide hunger strikers”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/22/police-strangle-doctor/

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“#PALESTINEACTION POLICING GUIDANCE SUGGESTS PROTESTERS WRONGLY ARRESTED”

by John McEvoy in Declassified UK

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“A previously unseen counter-terror police document clarifies how demonstrators should be treated. We are publishing it for the first time”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-action-policing-guidance-suggests-protesters-wrongly-arrested/

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The gardaí's actions compared to how they handled other protests were brought up to the Department of Justice, as one person said: "I have not seen this level of aggressiveness directed towards people who were literally running riot on our streets or those burning down buildings dedicated to housing immigrants, or camping out and stoking racism in sites such as Coolock."

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https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-criticised-for-alleged-strip-searches-of-protestors-following-vigil-for-gaza-1781387.html

'#Police leader questions #Braverman clampdown on officers’ #impartiality

#PaulFotheringham says #HomeSecretary positioning police as political rather than inclusive

#SuellaBraverman’s plan to clamp down on police officers who dance at #Pride or wear badges could open the door to #discrimination against #MarginalisedCommunities, a senior police officer has claimed.'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/12/police-leader-questions-braverman-clampdown-on-officers-impartiality
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Reflections on the riot in Bristol
Yesterday Bristol erupted into rioting in what is likely to amount to the first instance of new forms of resistance to the draconian Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Following on social media it was hard to tell exactly what was transpiring outside the images of objectively cool people doing kickflips in front of b
https://freedomnews.org.uk/reflections-on-the-riot-in-bristol/
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