Ann Cluett

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Tory peer sues Starmer over free speech row https://t.co/hhjJCKdF63

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Conservative peer Lord Ranger is suing Sir Keir Starmer in a free speech row after his CBE was revoked over comments made on social media.

Lord Ranger, a Tory peer and successful businessman, was awarded the CBE for services to business and community cohesion. He says he is the victim of “cancel culture”.

His lawyers will argue that the decision to revoke his honour was disproportionate and will have a chilling effect on the right of public figures to speak out on controversial issues.

The Free Speech Union has said “ruthlessly stripping” Lord Ranger of his honour over “perfectly lawful” comments is “beyond the pale”.

Lord Ranger’s lawyers say the case will test the Government’s legal right to “cancel” an individual rather than protect free speech.

The decision is said to have left Lord Ranger deeply embarrassed and distressed.

The Forfeiture Committee — a shadowy body in Whitehall — was responsible for the decision. The FSU has cited the committee’s activities in its opposition to the Government’s Removal of Peerages Bill, which could be used to hound peers out of Parliament over a slip of the tongue or a social media post, as well as to silence political opponents who do not subscribe to prevailing orthodoxies.

Lord Young of Acton said he was alarmed by the decision to strip Lord Ranger of his honour.

He said: “This shadowy committee, deep in the recesses of Whitehall, has become an enforcer of establishment orthodoxy, ruthlessly stripping people of their honours for expressing perfectly lawful views that it regards as beyond the pale.

“The reason this has such a chilling effect on free speech is that being denuded of an honour is far, far worse than not being given one in the first place. It’s deeply humiliating, with your dishonour being broadcast in the Gazette.

“If people knew that receiving an OBE or a CBE was accompanied by a muzzle, with the risk that if you stray outside the Overton window you could lose it, I doubt many people would accept them in the first place.”

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[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Are you aware of threats and acts of violence coming from radical Muslims ?

If so, why are you scared of talking about it ?

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

Police secretly recorded Vickrum Digwa telling his brother he’d stabbed Henry Nowak numerous times. He and his brother agreed to lie and say it was self-defence. They were speaking in Punjabi and made no mention of ‘racist abuse’ by Nowak.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

A Christian police community support officer (PCSO) was banned from policing after asking a Muslim sergeant about Islamism, Gaza and antisemitism during a “safe space” diversity training session.

Luke Salmons was accused of racism after asking questions about Islam during a diversity training day, despite assurances that it was a safe space. He was suspended two days after the training in October 2024, which focused on race, religion and culture, before being found guilty of gross misconduct and barred from working in policing ever again.

Mr Salmons had the decision overturned last December, but has still not received an apology from North Yorkshire Police.

He said he was “absolutely gutted” to lose a role he had held for more than eight years and believes fellow officers are working within a “culture of fear” where only approved views are permitted.

Officers are increasingly raising concerns that they feel “controlled and pressured to think in certain ways” during mandatory diversity training.

Mr Salmons said the training amounted to a “one-sided interpretation of diversity” and “indoctrination”, after witnessing the instructor repeatedly walk up and down the room chanting: “Islam is a religion of peace.”

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[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

Our patience has reached its limits.

The woke agenda has failed.

The woke agenda has cost lives.

The woke agenda is dangerous.

Enough.

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

Keir Starmer: “you will feel the full force of the law” Shame, those Muslim brothers at Manchester airport didn’t.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Tonight my family will pray for Siobhan Whyte and the Family of Riannon Whyte

The families of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates

And Henry Nowak and his family

Please pray for anyone I've forgotten

One day this evil will end 🙏❤️

[Mr T @TheMancMrT]

Patriots take the knee for Henry and St Peter’s Sq Manchester!

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Britain's woke two-tier state has been rightly blamed for the police's appalling response to the stabbing of Henry Nowak. But less understood, says Professor Michael Rainsborough, is the Maoist origins of woke ideology. https://t.co/59KKNwuDup

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

I was a radio presenter and live on air in May 2023 when I had to break the news that Lee Rigby had been brutally murdered by this man and his accomplice in Woolwich. They used this machete to try to behead Rigby.

13 long years later, no lessons have been learned by the authorities. None at all.

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

Keir Starmer has condemned the "horrific" attack in Belfast last night. "I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets".

But he’s still letting them in.

[Justice For Henry Nowak @HenryNowakSol_]

🇬🇧 NEVER FORGET HENRY NOWAK

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

How can a Secretary of State for Justice state unequivocally that he does not believe that people should be treated equally under the Law in a democracy and keep his job?

Or remain as a barrister?

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨WOW. Famous British DJ, Tom Zanetti, dedicates his performance to Henry Nowak in-front of thousands yesterday

The establishment has lost control.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

What can people do if they feel distress and anger at this twerp ?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Patriots - if you are protesting tonight, in Belfast or elsewhere, do NOT give Starmer what he wants.

Stay calm. Keep your heads. Do NOT attack the police.

The state will show you no mercy.

The dangerous ‘far-right’ will be blamed, and your life will be ruined forever.

It will be that brutal. However angry you are feeling now, it is not worth it.

Protest - but do it loudly, do it peacefully.

If the police are being aggressive, record it. Film it. Do not react. Because you will not be shown the same leniency as the officers. You will be charged, you will be sentenced, you will be imprisoned.

We’re all angry.

But you will achieve far more for our cause and country OUTSIDE of prison.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I have written to the Prime Minister.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Scotland Yard has been captured by a “woke mind virus” and no longer treats British citizens equally under the law.

Former elected chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation has said that the force has prioritised equality of outcomes among some ethnic minority groups rather than equality of opportunity for more than a decade.

Rick has written the foreword to the Free Speech Union’s new briefing ‘Fear and Favour: Britain’s Policing Emergency’.

This comes in the wake of the horrific murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak in Southampton. Henry was stabbed by Vicrum Digwa with a 21cm knife. When officers arrived at the scene, they arrested Henry after a false claim of racial abuse rather than attempt to save his life.

Mr Prior was suspended from his role by the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) after he said on a GB News interview that rank-and-file officers were concerned about vexatious complaints of racism.

With the help of the Free Speech Union, the High Court later found that Priot had been unlawfully treated by the PFEW.

He was later tasked by the Metropolitan Police with creating new DEI guidelines — which they later ignored.

Rick has written the foreword to the FSU’s new briefing, Fear and Favour: Britain’s Policing Emergency.

Read more below and check out the FSU’s new briefing 👇

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The fact he had never heard of Rhiannon Whyte is a disgrace.

But not surprising.

Labour are totally out of touch with the country.