‘I got really angry’: Allison Pearson’s brush with the tweet police

A clip from our documentary, Think Before You Post.

Topics Free Speech Politics UK

Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson was visited by police at her home on Remembrance Sunday. She was investigated on suspicion of ‘inciting racial hatred’, due to a year-old tweet.

Here, Allison tells her story to spiked’s Tom Slater.

This is a clip from Think Before You Post, our documentary about the rise of the British speech police. Watch the full thing here.

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