The rise of the British tweet police

When Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police over a year-old tweet, it made international headlines. Britain’s slide into woke censorship was made plain for all to see. But while the Pearson case was a shock, it shouldn’t have been a surprise. For decades now, Britain has been criminalising more and more forms of ‘hate speech’. Police chiefs, desperate to be seen to atone for past wrongs, have swallowed the illiberal identitarian agenda. A nation which once celebrated liberty is now a poster child for the new authoritarianism. Here, Tom Slater gives a potted history of Britain’s (literal) PC police and explains why it is a cautionary tale for the rest of the democratic world. Watch, share and make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel.