‘Police would rather screw up a murder inquiry than be accused of racism’

Allison Pearson on how the police embraced the cult of woke and went to war with free speech.

Topics Free Speech Politics UK

At the inaugural spiked summit, Allison Pearson – Telegraph columnist and host of Planet Normal – spoke about the police investigation into one of her tweets, the two-tier policing of so-called hate speech, and how ‘anti-racist’ indoctrination led to the tragedy of Henry Nowak.

Allison was speaking on the panel, ‘Free speech, identity and cancellation’. Watch the full discussion here.

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