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[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

South Wales Police appear to be zealously enforcing their own version of an Islamic blasphemy law.

Officers have been instructed to record speech that goes beyond what they deem to be “legitimate” discussion of Islam.

This creates an extraordinarily restrictive category of speech. Why should a South Wales Police officer have the power to decide what constitutes acceptable discussion of Islam and Muslims in a country that abolished its blasphemy laws 18 years ago?

The Free Speech Union has written to South Wales Police demanding that this guidance be withdrawn. If they fail to do so, we have warned that we will seek a judicial review.

Shadow Minister for Equalities @ClaireCoutinho has now referred South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

Read Claire’s letter below 👇

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Criticising Islam is within the British tradition of people
discussing the merits of religions, and I can scarcely believe that some faceless authoritarian should be allowed to punish a person for doing so

Should I expect to be punished for Life of Brian ?

Absolutely disgraceful

[ustonymc @ustonymc]

James Montgomery Doohan
Chief Engineer
Star Ship Enterprise
Juno Beach Hero
Normandy June 6 1944

During D-Day on June 6 1944, Doohan landed at Juno Beach as part of the second wave of Canadian forces. During the assault, he faced intense enemy fire and was tasked with leading his men across a beach littered with anti-tank mines. His deadeye successfully took out two German snipers during the landing.

Later in the day, Doohan was accidently shot 6 times by a nervous Canadian sentry resulting in the loss of his middle finger. Remarkably, one of the bullets was stopped by a silver cigarette case he carried, which was given to him by his brother. Despite his injuries, he continued to serve and later transitioned to pilot training, flying reconnaissance missions.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

South Wales Police has instructed officers to log comments they feel are beyond "legitimate" criticism of Islam.

This is, exactly as I warned, a blasphemy law through the back door.

Nobody voted for this.

My letter to the Chief Constable👇🏾

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service?

Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers.

They succeeded.

Please remember these heroines who saved lives:

[𝕵𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜𝖒𝖆𝖓 @jwgn]

@David_Crayford I saw that too - sadly plausible, but I've not read any other sources for the claim.

[𝕵𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜𝖒𝖆𝖓 @jwgn]

@David_Crayford Not yet; I think today's falls are because of US jobs data. The SpaceX float should be fun...

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Great meeting yesterday in Westminster, a lot of interested people wanting to know the actual law..good to get WSU, sex matters, seen in sport & WRN all together again, with a lot of new faces

[Jane @JaneFranklin99]

Normandy veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay - both 100 - on Sword Beach once more. @ForcesNews #D-Day

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

From this evening, I'll begin my series of posts for the D-Day commemorations.

I'm starting off with a first-hand account from a veteran who parachuted into Normandy on this very evening in 1944.

Do turn on notifications and 'Follow' me @DrHelenFry over the coming days!

[𝕵𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜𝖒𝖆𝖓 @jwgn]

@Fat_Jacques @SkyNews He does. He's a lawyer and uses words in a way that the listener will interpret in one way but not in the way he means them. C.f. Chakrabarti's statement that Labour doesn't have a problem with anti-Semitism.

[British Normandy Memorial @britishmemorial]

Wreath laying by 100-year-old Henry Rice off the Normandy coast.

#DDay82 commemorations have begun.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The UK has twice as many taxes as it had in 1993.

Not twice as much tax. Twice as many taxes.

Yes, we pay a bit more tax, but tax has got a whole lot more complicated. Time to reverse that.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

D-Day Embarkation Ramp, Torquay:

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx
Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Sure, GoogleMaps is cool but not half as cool as ORBIS. The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World allows you to check travel times during Roman times. You can choose your mode of travel too! Source: https://t.co/zgVnhUdbKh

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Alexander Browder @Alexbrowder_]

Proud to be the first high school student in the world to ever be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime for uncovering corruption. It just proves that the work I’ve done to expose Russias sanctions evasion stablecoin, A7A5, has touched a raw nerve.

https://t.co/b0voHBkqG7

[𝕵𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜𝖒𝖆𝖓 @jwgn]

@David_Crayford @Microsoft I've been playing with Mint for the last few months - very impressed.

You can buy Office licences outright if you want though.