Image:The 'Hate Monster' being used to advertise the law change. Pic: Police Scotland Police Scotland refused to be questioned by Sky News on camera about the new law. A statement from a spokesman said: "Our training package has been developed in close consultation with diversity s...
Conservative lawmaker Sam Gyimah, who ran for the party's leadership but withdrew before voting began, told Sky News that voting against the government was the "nuclear option" and he did not intend to do so. Gyimah, who supports holding a second referendum on Bre...
LONDON (Reuters) -A senior British Conservative lawmaker has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson's father of touching her inappropriately at the party's annual conference in 2003 when they were both parliamentary candidates ahead of an election. During a panel discussion on Sky News about ...
But when some act or statement, either spoken or written, can be defined as a criminal act of 'hate speech' by anyone who decides they are offended by it, is the prosecution the alleged offender anything to do with justice, or is it the weaponisation of law against freedom and human ...
New hate crime laws have come into force in Scotland. Opinion is divided on whether the laws will make the country more tolerant - or stifle free speech. What is included under the new laws, why are they so controversial - and what has the author of Harry Potter got to...
Spotify’s accusation to the European Union that Apple uses its control of the App Store to squeeze out competition reportedly will soon result in antitrust charges being filed against the iPhone-maker. This comes on the same day the UK begins an investigation of the App Store. The two anti...
A talk with Lesley Klaff, Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University and a member of UK Lawyers for Israel, an NGO that provides pro bono legal advice and representation to victims of anti-Semitism.
we don’t even know that the case is going on, we have no way of holding the court to account if – as is inevitable from time to time, given human nature – a judge makes a decision through corruption, cronyism or incompetence rather than through the fair application of the law. Pub...
UK police: Millard was "not simply expressing his freedom of speech" Law enforcement argued that Millard was “not simply expressing his freedom of speech, but was engaged in a campaign of antisemitic hate.” The former attorney was found guilty in November. ...
hate'. This phenomenon manifests in various ways across all ages. For years, I haven't been able to work out why so many of my fellow white Anglo-Saxons in London, and even in the provinces to a lesser degree, frequently shun each other, and act in a anti-social manner that works...