The fact that the Brave New World of our woke overlords is so laughable means people often don’t notice how sinister it is. But if you want a picture of Britain's future, then to paraphrase Orwell, imagine a clown shoe stamping on a human face — for ever.

The solution to thought policing in the UK isn’t to raise the threshold of what constitutes an Orwellian ‘non-crime hate incident’, writes Lionel Shriver. What we need to do is "abolish eye-of-the-beholder 'hate speech' laws altogether.

Criticism continues to mount over EDI proposals from the Bar Standards Board (BSB), a professional watchdog, with one respected criminal law barrister suggesting the requirements would put barristers “under a professional duty to become social engineers”.

A Labour MP has labelled the police investigation into Allison Pearson over a social media post as “Stasi-like”. Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South, said the police should be focusing on fighting crime rather than intimidating journalists and threatening press freedom.

The shadow home secretary has called for guidelines around non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) to be rewritten. Chris Philp used a speech at a major policing conference on Wednesday to tell police chiefs they are not the “thought police”, and that officers should only be investigating NCHIs where there is a...

A school faces backlash from parents after it said it removed all Christmas references from a pantomime performance for pupils and parents to make them feel “safe and valued”. The Telegraph has the story. Mandy Ovenden, the head teacher of Wherwell Primary School in Andover in Hampshire, caused anger among parents...

Britain’s top prosecutor, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, has said that he “had no idea” what non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) were and “had to look them up” recently, as he cast doubt on their usefulness.

Inconsistent policing – as seen this week – based on spurious ideas means there is a danger that some minorities will enjoy the full protection of the law, with others thought fair game, writes FSU General Secretary Toby Young for the Jewish Chronicle.

Non-crime hate incident (NCHI) recording has no place in the 21st century, writes the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, for the Telegraph.

A woman in the German state of Bavaria had her house searched and her mobile phone and her son’s laptop confiscated for the 'crime' of sharing a meme on social media that made fun of leading government politicians.

A man in Bavaria had his house raided by police after retweeting a meme mocking German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck of the Greens party.

The Home Secretary says consistent approach needed as she emphasises ‘immense importance’ of monitoring anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

Dozens of lawyers, scholars, journalists and democratic politicians have been imprisoned for ‘subversion’ against the pro-Beijing government.

The teenage girl banned from football after asking a “bearded” transgender opponent “Are you a man?” is to appeal her punishment with the help of the Free Speech Union,