
Northern Ireland: Police Drop Investigation of Comedian over Joke
While some—the comedian in question included—might want to brush it off as a humorous episode, how it reflects the current state of free speech in the UK is decidedly not funny.

While some—the comedian in question included—might want to brush it off as a humorous episode, how it reflects the current state of free speech in the UK is decidedly not funny.

“Sophie” had gone to the police station to report that she had been raped by an Asian man but was told to come back when she “was not drunk.”

In February, Spain’s National Police raided a flat in Granada that had been consuming an amount of electricity equivalent to 70 flats. The electricity had been lavished on a marijuana plantation that had been responsible for intermittent blackouts in the neighbourhood.

French policemen have been particularly badly treated for many months. They have been targeted and stoned in the suburbs, accused of violence and racism, all of which generates feelings of frustration, powerlessness, and lack of legitimacy which, for the moment, is not going to disappear.