and of course this is alison pearson.ve heard so much about excellent journalists with one of the most popular columns in the country who for some reason was investigated by police . now, the investigated by police. now, the police came to her door and said it was a non—crime hate incident. the police have now said it's not. actually, it's more to do with hate crime. both are completely absurd. she did a tweet a year ago. they didn't name it. they didn't. >> we have no, we literally have no idea. still, do we know the police wouldn't tell her or they wouldn't tell her. >> who posted the know who the victim was, not the accuser. >> the victim. completely absurd. anarcho tyranny. i've talked about it online, but there's some new parts to it, which is that the home office have sort of had to come up with something now because it's been humiliating for them. they said. we are carefully considering how best to protect individuals and communities from hate, which is impossible, by the way, whilst also balancing the need to prot

if no innocuous, especially if no charges are brought, though that does remain to be seen in alison pearson'scome up on enhanced dbs checks . this could enhanced dbs checks. this could cost someone his livelihood for saying something that it is legal to say. and perhaps even more importantly, this phenomenon will ultimately those who have the least voice, the least powerful in society. if the police have been so indiscriminate as to record them against public figures like amber rudd, who can answer back, one can only imagine the number of people who have had them who cannot answer back. free speech union has estimated a quarter of a million. a quarter of a million have been recorded in england and wales. but the people with public profiles can fight against these absurdities. people who aren't known to the pubuc people who aren't known to the public are powerless. left with a potentially career defining blot on their record, all for the crime of not committing a crime. as ever, let me know your views mailmogg@gbnews.com. i'm joined now by thomas harris, director of data and impact at the free

the telegraph police, in appalling attack on free speech alison pearson, the independent, revealed trumpge starmer's chagos islands deal. the i labour will miss its new homes pledge, says official leading plan the metro. trump's defence chief is tv host or was daily star widdle in the shower to save the planet? that's your advice . so back to that's your advice. so back to musk world now, leo. and after a brief diversion, the grauniad have decided to pull their account from his platform. perhaps infuriated that they can't spell ex wrong . can't spell ex wrong. >> yeah, i'm sure they'd find a way like upside down ex. but yeah, this is the guardian. they've announced they will no longer post content on elon musk's social media platform x, or as it's still known by everybody, twitter, twitter . so everybody, twitter, twitter. so they made an announcement to readers. i don't know why they have to announce it. it's like they'd announce they're leaving a party and oh, i'm leaving the party because there's pineapple in the potato salad and the sangria is warm. i don't know, like just just go. b

so alison pearson, friend of the channel , very alison pearson, friend of the channel, very fine writerand i agree with most things that she says and her opinions basically woke up remembrance sunday and the police were there and they said, oh, we've come here because you wrote a tweet . and because you wrote a tweet. and then she was like, well, what tweet? and they were like, oh no, we can't tell you. and then so she woke up in east berlin. yes , essentially. yes, essentially. >> i mean, this is the headline talks about how it's a kafkaesque hate crime inquiry, and it absolutely is. if people have read the trial, they will know it's about a character who is on trial for something he hasn't. they don't tell him. well, she said, who's who accused me? >> he said, no, they're not accused, they're the victim. >> but we can't tell you what you're accused of. yeah. and even that phrase, the victim. yeah. it's completely bypassing due process. yeah. this is terrifying stuff. >> it's scary because she's. look, she's got a big profile, right? yeah. if this can happen to her. what is it? what's

so this week, journalist alison pearson had the police knock at the door to accuse her of a non—crimerime. she wasn't actually allowed to know what the non—crime was or even who the accuser was. in fact, she was told in no uncertain terms that it wasn't an accuser. it was a victim . but surely the moment victim. but surely the moment that accusers instantly become victims , that must mean that the victims, that must mean that the perpetrators instantly become guilty. but not you. no, that's not what the police say. according to the police, it's easier for them to police our tweets than it is for them to police our increasingly dangerous streets. even more lunacy then appeared when we discovered that the police are intervening with nine year olds. so nine year olds in the playground now are not allowed to call a fellow nine year old a word that means stupid and rhymes with leotard and they're not allowed to tell a friend that they smell like a fish. now, i know it's not nice, and i know it's not kind, but the playground is a theatre of gladiatorial survival. it's where children learn h

essex police for an attack on free speech after they turned up to the house of the journalist, alison pearson over a tweet she made more than a year ago. >> it seemed to me a completely mad overreaction. whatever it was that i posted a year ago on x , i'm not in the habit of x, i'm not in the habit of writing anything horrible and inflammatory. if i wrote something that was unwise , i something that was unwise, i still don't think that's a proportionate response . proportionate response. >> and we'll bring you welsh . >> and we'll bring you welsh. labour's plan to make the great outdoors less racist. their solution ? banning dogs? yep, you solution? banning dogs? yep, you did hear that right? >> and sir rod stewart is not sailing. he's sailing. in fact, he's selling five of his sports cars because he's sick to death of the potholes near his home in essex. >> and king charles is celebrating his 76th birthday today. he's opening two new food hubs. and last night he was in attendance at the gladiator two premiere. that sounds like a rather relaxing birthday . rather relaxing birthday. get in tou

so there's been some confusion about this because in alison pearson's original article, she said thatught the police had said to her it was a non—crime hate incident. actually, they released the transcript. they did say an incident. so you can see where the confusion started. yeah. but they also said it might be a crime. it might be stirring up racial hatred. and this is a tweet that was long deleted. it's over a year old. and i just want to ask the question a lot of people are sort of defending the police here. why? what business have the police, paul, in investigating anyone's speech and thought at all, let alone a journalist? >> i think there are very, very, very, very few instances where the police should be involved in anything like this, if at all. actually , my fear and my own actually, my fear and my own opinion is this is all about the control of information, right ? control of information, right? we and they do it. and the thing that's terrifying about it is they do it under the guise of protecting us. yes. so we are controlling the information so that you are protected and

alison pearson is under investigation by essex police for allegedly stirring up racial hatred with a social media post made in november of last year. meanwhile, former prime minister bofis meanwhile, former prime minister boris johnson compared police action to that of the soviet union in the last century. sir keir starmer has said he will defend the decisions made in the budget all day long, amid anger from farmers over inheritance tax changes. the prime minister made the comments at his first speech at the welsh labour conference in kladno. meanwhile, farmers descended on the conference in protest over changes to inheritance tax in the changes announced in the budget. farmers who pass on their land will have to pay a 20% tax on assets worth more than £1 million. the prime minister defended proposals, saying the government needs to keep explaining how it will work . keep explaining how it will work. plans to force a referendum over the handover of the chagos islands could delay the treaty from taking effect until after us president elect donald trump takes office. lord bellingham is

she joins me live to discuss her case and that of alison pearson.onight's panel are ready to go too. i'm joined by the former tory adviser, lauren mckevitt, conservative peer lord bailey and former labour adviser matthew laza . and labour adviser matthew laza. and after boots worst christmas ad everis after boots worst christmas ad ever is john lewis a contender for the best? jeevun sandher for jo cox is closing 15 minutes. labour's war on farmers just went nuclear next. >> a very good evening to you . >> a very good evening to you. the time is 9:03 and these are your latest gb news headlines. a 17 year old girl who died in a collision on the m5 as she was fleeing from a police vehicle , fleeing from a police vehicle, has been named by avon and somerset police as tamsin hall, the teenager, from wellington, somerset, was killed in the incident shortly after 11 pm. on monday night. since then , on monday night. since then, avon and somerset police has made a mandatory referral to the independent office for police conduct to carry out an investigation.

said all that , i having said all that, i completely disagree with most of what comes out of alison pearson'shat she has made deeply inflammatory comments. she has . she has. comments. she has. she has. i think that she has the right to say things that i would consider islamophobic, and provided that she's not there , that doesn't she's not there, that doesn't cross the kind of the hate crime threshold. now, the tweet that we seem to be talking about, according to the guardian, is where she talks, where she called. she looks at a photograph of three protesters with a flag, and that is actually the flag of the mainstream pakistani political party with opposing with police officers and called those people jew haters based on the fact that they're opposing this flag . that they're opposing this flag. now, in my book, that is a racist tweet. now, does it should it be permissible? i don't look, i think that people might have been if she had been targeting those people individually, i think they would have had a very good grounds to sue her in a, in a, in a court of law, because that is obviously w