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The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.
The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.
Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.
South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.
The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.
We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.
Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.
Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.
Watch Lord Young below 👇
Does the Northern Ireland Secretary really not think that attempting to behead someone in the street is alien to our culture?
Why do they insist on not seeing what is plain as day to the rest of us?
Randall Carlson's digital academy is finally here - five decades of research coming together in one living university. Don't miss this. https://t.co/jZFLlSbJmf
He examines one of the most troubling aspects of the climate debate: the systematic exclusion of data that contradicted model predictions. When late twentieth century measurements failed to align with computer projections, certain researchers simply left that data out of their reconstructions. This wasn't an oversight or a minor technical decision. It was a deliberate choice to present a narrative rather than the full picture. The models driving policy recommendations required validation, and when the real-world data didn't cooperate, the data was set aside. Independent scientists couldn't replicate the work because key datasets were withheld. The issue isn't whether climate changes or even whether humans play a role. The issue is whether the scientific process itself was compromised in service of a predetermined conclusion.
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p
Well done to Signal for speaking up.
It's obvious that this isn't really about keeping children safe, it's about giving the state greater surveillance powers over ordinary citizens.
The same politicians claiming the moral high ground on child protection are the ones who voted against a national rape gang inquiry.
Forgive me if I don't take their lectures on safeguarding seriously.
Do not fall for this nonsense.
Andy Burnham is not calling to do what is necessary to stop illegal immigration.
He is not calling to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
He is not calling to repeal Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act.
He is not calling to disempower the activist lawyers who put illegals ahead of decent British people.
He is not calling to detain and deport ALL illegal migrants.
No.
All Andy Burnham is calling for is to revise a few Home Office contracts.
He thinks you are dumb enough not to notice he will just move illegals from the asylum hotels into HMOs.
He thinks you are dumb enough not to notice that his “tough words” amount to … zero.
Labour will NEVER stop the boats because Labour is not interested in dealing with the root cause.
Only Reform has a serious plan for dealing with the root cause of this crisis - not gaslighting the British people about its symptoms.
Leave the ECHR. Repeal the HRA. Detain and deport, deport, deport.
Vote Reform in Makerfield.
In 2006, polling showed that 68% of Muslims in Britain think it should be a criminal offence to insult Islam.
So far, Britain has chosen a path of appeasement and capitulation to Islamic blasphemy laws.
Since Starmer came to power, cases received by the Free Speech Union of people being penalised for criticising Islam or Muslim cultural practices have increased by a multiple of 4.
This was before the 'anti Muslim hostility definition' was introduced by Labour. All 5 members, hand picked by Labour, of the working group that came up with the definition have links to Islamist organisations.
A reminder that Burnham is not competing for the same prize in the upcoming by election as the other candidates.
This was already a Labour seat. It was secure.
Burnham is here to run the country. A job he is totally underprepared and under skilled for.
A man who has no understanding of energy policy.
A man who says he will obey the fiscal rules even though he doesn’t know what they are.
A man who u-turned on the EU,
Not to mention migration or the bond markets.
Like so many things today, it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
His pitch to run the country is a joke. A bad one.
Vote Reform. Give Makerfield a voice. An honest one. A real one.
MPs have signed off their own bumper 5% pay hike and expenses boost despite Treasury warnings that the move was "unjustified" and would be rejected for a Government department. https://t.co/nRZh0Eawry
Ed Miliband has signed the UK up to a legally binding 87% CO2 emissions cut by 2040. Paul Homewood says this can only be achieved by the devastation of industry and sharp cuts in the standard of living. Read his article in the Climate Skeptic. https://t.co/bGOg3zigaP
BBC Newsnight have just issued an apology to Nigel Farage for wilfully misquoting him.
This is the THIRD apology in THREE years.
Once is a mistake.
Twice is incompetence.
THREE times is 100% deliberate.
I honestly can't wait until the licence fee is scrapped.
Rachel Reeves is a tax leech. Grabbing any entity she can find to suck it dry of cash in order to splash it on those that won’t contribute.
This is so obviously a doomsday approach tried by the left many times in many places and has never, ever succeeded in anything but higher unemployment, less tax income, higher public borrowing and ultimate bankruptcy.
Call me old fashioned but this is a bloke in a very cheap wig.
And Labour MPs want to allow him in women's toilets and changing rooms.
What a sick world we're now living in.
A white woman criticises a brown man for defending the rights of a white man who died because police were prejudiced against him. The media is truly cooked in the UK.