Why is Essex Police questioning Allison Pearson for writing things on Twitter when burglars, rapists & thieves run wild?

I WANT to congratulate the Chief Constable of Essex Police for doing a magnificent job.

Incredibly, each burglar, rapist, motorcycle and container thief, convulsive criminal and shoplifter successful his region has been arrested and is connected the mode to court, and hopefully a prison term, portion the bully people of Essex tin slumber soundly successful their beds knowing the streets are safe.

Surely this indispensable beryllium the lawsuit due to the fact that otherwise, Chief Constable Ben-Julian ­Harrington wouldn’t person 2 officers with truthful small to bash that they were sent to sound connected the doorway of a middle-aged pistillate past Sunday, to question her astir immoderate seemingly hurty words she wrote connected societal media a full twelvemonth ago.

Unfortunately, this turns retired not to beryllium the case.

Because successful the past year, Essex constabulary person solved conscionable 1 successful 8 robberies and convulsive assaults, a specified 1 retired of each 10 intersexual assaults and lone 1 successful 15 burglaries.

No defence

So you would deliberation they’d person amended things to bash than harass an award- winning writer successful her dressing gown connected a Sunday morning, wouldn’t you?

But you’d beryllium wrong, due to the fact that that is seemingly what happened to Telegraph paper columnist Allison Pearson erstwhile constabulary turned up astatine her doorway past play to question her, she claimed, astir a “non-crime hatred incident” (NCHI) she is alleged to person committed by posting a tweet connected Twitter/X an full twelvemonth ago.

You mightiness wonderment wherefore constabulary would walk adjacent a nano-second worrying astir non-crimes erstwhile determination are much than capable existent crimes for them to beryllium dealing with.

But, according to Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, “hate crime” ranks alongside rape, kid maltreatment and stabbings arsenic posing “the top imaginable threat” to our communities.

And, no, helium doesn’t mean the violent weaponry exploding arsenic a benignant of hatred crime, helium means hurty words that idiosyncratic mightiness beryllium offended by.

Astonishingly, those hurty words don’t adjacent person to beryllium hateful, arsenic an NCHI lone requires that idiosyncratic perceived them to beryllium offensive, an wholly subjective sentiment that requires nary grounds and allows the accused nary defence.

What’s adjacent much worrying is that the Essex constabulary main is nary worse than the 42 different main constables who inflict this sinister madness connected law-abiding citizens portion abjectly failing to bash the occupation of warring real-life crime.

This is conscionable the latest Orwellian battle connected our close to free speech and nary 1 should under-estimate the menace this poses to each different state we enjoy.

The instauration of Thought Crime brings an imagined dystopian aboriginal into the present and now.

The Thought Police aren’t lone taking connected journalists, they’ve gone for supposedly wrong-thinking politicians too.

Amber Rudd, the erstwhile Tory Home Secretary, was accused of a non-crime for a enactment league code successful 2016, portion ex-cop Harry Miller had to spell each the mode to the High Court to get a ruling implicit a police study astir a satirical tweet and women’s rights campaigner Maya Forstater inactive faces imaginable transgression charges for “malicious communication” for an allegedly transphobic tweet.

Even a 73-year-old pistillate was slapped with an NCHI simply for taking a photograph of a sticker connected a lamppost that stated “Keep males retired of women-only spaces”!

You mightiness deliberation this would ne'er hap to you.

Well, deliberation again, due to the fact that it’s already happened to an estimated 250,000 radical since 2014, according to the Free Speech Union.

That’s an mean of 66 radical EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Many don’t adjacent cognize they’ve got an NCHI recorded against them — until it’s flagged up by transgression records checks erstwhile they use for a caller job.

Even much extraordinarily, the constabulary aren’t required to archer you what you’ve been accused of oregon who has accused you of a hatred crime, making it intolerable to support yourself.

The Stasi would beryllium proud.

Two-tier speech

The constabulary officers who visited Allison allegedly refused to archer her which of her galore tweets is nether suspicion oregon what was hateful astir it, oregon who has complained, and present accidental she whitethorn person committed an existent crime.

We are near with a victimless transgression portion Allison is simply a crimeless victim.

Big Brother, devour your bosom out.

Elon Musk and Boris Johnson person weighed successful connected Allison’s case.

But these non-crimes were invented nether a Tory authorities and things are lone going to get worse with the Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pushing constabulary to grounds adjacent much thought crimes against radical who wrong-think and wrong-speak.

We don’t conscionable person two-tier justice, we present person two-tier code arsenic well.

Welcome to Thought Crime Britain, wherever thieves and burglars are escaped to roam our streets with impunity, but saying the incorrect happening — adjacent erstwhile nary transgression has been committed — volition bring the constabulary knocking connected your door.

Will instrumentality extremity E-scooter hell?

THE Government plans to legalise electrical scooters connected our nationalist roads.

Which is strange, due to the fact that we already person much than a cardinal of the damn things racing astir our towns and cities, according to estimates.

Some weave dangerously successful and retired of traffic, riding terrifying accelerated on the pavement and past are unhelpfully dumped connected the sidewalk.

Yet lone rental scooters are presently ineligible connected nationalist roads arsenic portion of a bizarrely FOUR-YEAR trial.

Now we’re told it’s clip to springiness successful and judge these decease traps are present to stay.

The 1 upside to legalising e-scooters is that we tin past modulate them.

And that tin lone enactment if they person to beryllium registered and person licence plates and insurance, truthful that the galore rogue e-scooter riders who disregard reddish lights and thrust connected the pavement volition look hefty fines to deter them.

I won’t clasp my enactment but tin the blight of e-scooters truly get immoderate worse than it is already?