The number of people being arrested for things they’ve said online, as revealed by Big Brother Watch in The Mail on Sunday, is deeply alarming.
The UK is the birthplace of parliamentary democracy and has an exemplary tradition of free speech dating back to the Magna Carta.
Yet these figures show it is on life support. If the Government doesn’t take urgent action to restore it to health, we are in danger of becoming the North Korea of the North Sea.
Why are the authorities spending so much time policing our tweets when they could be policing our streets?
Shoplifting, mobile phone theft and
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