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Conservative Party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has said she would refocus police resources on street crime, not “hurt feelings”, as Prime Minister.

A woke activist involved in the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ statue-toppling campaign is helping write free speech guidelines for the University of Oxford. 

Britain’s woke University of Bristol has banned a raft of supposedly offensive terms, including “gendered” words like “manpower” and “manning” and age-related nicknames like “millennial” and “baby boomer”. 

Half of the police officers who attended the Muslim Easter riots in the city of Örebro say they have experienced mental health problems following the violence that saw several officers attacked and injured.

Monday on Newsmax TV’s “John Bachman Now,” high school football coach Joseph Kennedy reacted to the Supreme Court siding 6-3 in his favor for praying on the field after games.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court is expected in the next seven days to hand down five major decisions, three of which will be huge, and potentially material for the history books –on abortion, the Second Amendment, and religious liberty.

Britain’s education tsar has proposed new legislation which would see University organisations risk being fined for taking money from authoritarian regimes such as China.

British movie The Lady of Heaven has been banned in Morocco after Islamic authorities condemned it for presenting a version of Islamic history they disagree with and “hurting the feelings of Muslims”.

The British government’s advisor on Islamophobia has been revealed to support the Muslim protests against a supposedly “blasphemous” film.

Muslims in London have mobbed a cinema for showing an allegedly “blasphemous” film already pulled nationwide by one major chain amid safety fears.

Bowing to pressure from protests from Muslim groups, a British cinema chain has pulled all screenings of a film over “safety concerns”.

Hong Kong police arrested six people for “public order offenses” on Saturday, the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

A UK police force said they will be “monitoring” their social media posts for hate speech as officers appeared with the Progress Pride flag.

The Pillar of Shame, a haunting memorial to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, stood proudly in Hong Kong for over twenty years until Communist goons finally managed to tear it down last December. The original statue has been buried in storage by the Chinese Communists, who are desperately trying to erase the Tiananmen massacre from history, but replicas are rising around the world with the blessing of the artist.

Outgoing Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that vigils for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre could violate not only coronavirus safety protocols, but also the draconian “national security law” imposed on the island by Beijing in 2020.

Swiss police officers bearing a “World Economic Forum Police” patch were filmed detaining American conservative journalist Jack Posobiec.

The Australian government’s eSafety Commissioner called for a “recalibration” of the right to freedom of speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) during its annual meeting which sees global elites from enterprise and government descend on the ski resort town of Davos, Switzerland.

Ireland’s leftist president has decried the purchasing of social media companies by billionaires as a “form of dictatorship” on a TV station owned by the Irish state.

A University of Central Florida (UCF) professor named Charles Negy was fired from his position last year, but an arbitrator has since won him reinstatement.

Brazil’s conservative President Jair Bolsonaro turned to the Prosecutor General’s office to investigate top judge Alexandre de Moraes for abuse of power on Wednesday in response to de Moraes ordering violent raids against comedians, journalists, and Youtubers over alleged dissemination of “fake news.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Buffalo, NY Mayor Byron Brown (D) argued that “False information, hateful information,” and “attempts to indoctrinate people in different forms of hate and violence on the Internet and on the airwaves of this nation

During an interview on MSNBC on Monday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) argued that social media platforms should be regulated, but “You don’t have to regulate speech, you can regulate misinformation. You could say, you can’t yell ‘Fire!’ in a theater.”

A now-fired British police officer and former prison guard faces imprisonment for sending “grossly offensive” memes about George Floyd on WhatsApp.

The Associated Press (AP) was accused of misunderstanding the very concept of freedom of speech after the news organization attacked Tesla CEO Elon Musk for the “contradiction” of purporting to defend free speech despite having used Twitter’s platform to criticize others.

Elon Musk has seemingly kowtowed to the EU on internet free speech, declaring he is “exactly aligned” with the bloc’s censorship regulations.

Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins has suggested that Elon Musk loosening speech restrictions on Twitter would be “incredible and dangerous narcissism”.

A survey done by Germany’s pro-censorship federal government has found that almost half of people in the country feel that accusations of racism and “political correctness” can stifle free speech.

British parliamentarians have summoned billionaire Elon Musk over his acquisition of Twitter and his plans to revive free speech.

Drew Pavlou, a 20-year-old Greek-Australian running for the Australian Senate seat from Queensland, said he was verbally abused and physically assaulted by Chinese “ultra-nationalists” on Saturday while demonstrating against the Chinese Communist regime in Sydney with a sign that read “F**k Xi Jinping.”

A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.

The mayor for the city region of Liverpool, England has claimed advertisements on buses promoting an appearance by American evangelist Reverend Franklin Graham constitute “hate speech” and should be removed.

Almost a third of Swedes say they are for banning political demonstrations that are offensive to sections of the community following multi-day riots over Easter sparked by anti-Islam protesters burning copies of the Qur’an.

Democrat senators on Friday will weigh whether or not Elon Musk should testify about how he intends to reform Twitter.

Thursday, FNC host Tucker Carlson decried recently unveiled efforts from the Biden administration to crack down on so-called disinformation through the use of the federal government’s power.

Nigel Farage says it is “crazy” that Donald Trump was banned from Twitter but the radical Islamic extremist Taliban remained on the platform even as it stormed Kabul.

Leftists have found yet another way to make Colin Kaepernick a victim of evil conservatives by contrasting their support of Elon Musk.