Shabana Mahmood facing legal challenge over 'hate crimes' amid free speech row

Shabana Mahmood facing legal challenge over 'hate crimes' amid free speech row

The Home Secretary is facing a High Court legal challenge over rules that can see “hate crimes” recorded before any investigation — and without the person accused even being told.Ex-police officer Harry Miller, co-founder of campaign group Fair Cop, says the Home Office’s national crime-recording rules are “unlawful” because they can force officers to log a hate crime based purely on someone’s perception, even when the facts are disputed.At the …

Britain’s Free Speech Crisis

Britain is sleepwalking into a free speech crisis. Former Prime Minister Liz Truss exposes how censorship laws, woke institutions, captured police forces and activist-led prosecutions are turning the UK into a place where ordinary people are arrested, questioned or even jailed simply for expressing an opinion online.