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UK teacher referred to counter-terrorism programme after showing Trump videos to politics class

Oxfordshire lecturer accused of causing students 'emotional harm' and forced to resign from £44,000-a-year post

Evening Standard

Met police to end non-crime hate investigations after Graham Linehan case

Father Ted co-creator to sue force for wrongful arrest after CPS drops proceedings over social media posts about trans issues

The Guardian - UK

Met Police to stop investigating non-crime hate incidents after Graham Linehan ‘anti-trans’ probe dropped

It follows the decision by police to take no further action against the ‘Father Ted’ creator

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Former Met chief calls for ministers to scrap non-crime hate incidents

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe and Lord Toby Young launch effort to change the Crime and Policing Bill that would stop requiring police to record NCHIs

Evening Standard

Man fined for burning Qur’an in London wins appeal against conviction

Judge says Hamit Coskun has ‘right to offend’ and overturns conviction for religiously aggravated public order offence

The Guardian - UK

Police accused of 'harassing' cancer patient after officer visited her home over 'upsetting' Facebook comment

Woman threatens ‘to get Elon Musk’ on police officer who accused her of making ‘upsetting’ Facebook comments

Evening Standard

OPINION - If people aren’t allowed to speak their minds, how can we hope to change them?

When the vice-president of the United States took Sir Keir Starmer to task earlier this year for failing to uphold free speech, the Prime Minister was quick to hit back. “In relation to free speech in the UK, I’m very proud of our history there,” he said. “We’ve had free…

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Man who burned Koran was attacked and spat at, court told

Hamit Coskun is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after burning the Islamic text on February 13.

Evening Standard

Criminalising Koran burning would be reintroducing blasphemy law, court told

Hamit Coskun is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Evening Standard

Burning of Koran ‘posed a threat to public order’, prosecutors say

Hamit Coskun, 50, is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

The Independent UK

Burning of Koran outside Turkish consulate in Knightsbridge ‘posed a threat to public order’, trial hears

Hamit Coskun, 50, allegedly shouted ‘f*** Islam’, ‘Islam is religion of terrorism’ and ‘Koran is burning’ as he held the flaming Islamic text aloft

Evening Standard

What are ‘non-crime hate incidents’ which have become so hated in the UK?

Children in England and Wales have been investigated by police for calling each other names, a study has found.

Al Jazeera

Six new Tory peers are ‘brave, true radicals’, Kemi Badenoch claims

Toby Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, is among those who have been nominated as a Conservative life peer by the Tory leader.

The Independent UK

Who is Toby Young? The new peer who considers devolved nations 'ungrateful'

TOBY Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union and an associate editor of The Spectator has been made a life peer soon to…

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A trade union for free speech? Battle lines drawn over groups that claim representative status

The Free Speech Union says its members can claim fees as a tax deduction, but ACTU argues unregistered unions cannot provide effective representation

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