Free Speech is Dead in the UK

The sentencing of a 53-year-old grandmother to 15 months in prison for a social media post following the Southport stabbings underscores the stark reality that free speech in the UK is increasingly under threat. While the UK has a long tradition of valuing free expression, recent cases like this demonstrate how easily speech can be criminalized when it crosses into territory deemed “hateful” by authorities. A quiet, sheltered woman now faces significant jail time simply for posting her thoughts online, raising serious concerns about the erosion of free speech in the country.

She posted a comment that said that mosques should not be protected and should be “blown up with the adults in it”. While this is obviously a vile post, it was also deleted within a couple of minutes, and it's not like she had any massive following!

Three police cars showed up at her modest home to arrest her—just another example of what a failed state the UK has become. While knife crime and muggings run rampant, we arrest Grandmothers for an ill-advised Facebook post almost no one would have ever seen beyond two minutes.