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Scottish police have charged a man for writing an “offensive tweet” about Sir Captain Tom Moore, following his death. The arrest has sparked a row over the increasingly restrictive limits on freedom of speech in the British home nation. In

WELLINGTON (AFP) – New Zealand is to erase the racially offensive word “nigger” from its landscape, the government said on Thursday.

A ‘journalist’ and lecturer in science journalism who accused Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt of “sexism”, after he told a joke, has left her university post claiming that she was pushed out.

The British Army has been forced to apologise and delete a tweet after being accused of “racism” for posting a picture of a soldier with green paint on his face.

A Muslim Police Chief Inspector for Greater Manchester has indicated that, according to his understanding, “Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or tradition”. Chief Inspector Umer Khan made the statement on social media this weekend, and

The UK’s advertising watchdog is investigating the “objectification and sexualisation of women in ads” because of an “increasing political and public debate” driven by “offended” feminists on social media. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has already started banning ads featuring

A group of Twitter feminists have decided that they are offended by the very language they speak, venting their frustration at the Oxford English Dictionary, which appears to be caving to their demands. The bossy group rabidly nagged the dictionary over

A leading European art museum has expunged politically incorrect words such as “Negro”, “Indian”, “dwarf” and “Mohammedan” from its entire historical collection.  The cultural cleansing has occurred as the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, and is endorsed by the International Council of

A beer manufacturer has released “the world’s first ‘non-binary, transgender beer’ designed to… champion inclusivity.” The product comes just weeks after the company was accused of “transphobia” for featuring men in women’s clothing in an ad campaign. Craft brewer BrewDog,

Bookmaker Paddy Power has been given a ticking off by the Ireland’s advertising standards authority over a humorous advertising campaign designed to poke fun at tennis star Andy Murray. The campaign featured a number of immigrant sportsmen, plus Murray, which was

Feminism in London (FiL), one of the largest feminist conferences in the UK, has seen two major speakers pull out because of “ideological totalitarianism” and “sectarian” “warring feminist factions,” who fell out over an attempt to “no-platform” certain speakers who

A student magazine founded on the principles of free speech called No Offence has been banned from the University of Oxford fresher’s fair because the Student Union deemed it “offensive.” The satirical magazine was supposed to “challenge the mainstream view”

A transgender beauty pageant hosted by former UKIP candidate Kellie Maloney has upset transgender campaigners (nothing new there) for offering cosmetic, or “gender-reassignment,” surgery as a prize. Critics argue that surgery should be a “right” and “basic health care” rather

The latest edition of Charlie Hebdo has satirised the image of drowned Syrian migrant child Aylan Kurdi, to mock Christian Europe and its apparent obsession with consumerism in the face of the migrant crisis. But many seem to have got

Benedict ‘Sherlock’ Cumberbatch has said he is “a complete fool”, an “idiot”, “thoughtless” and that he is “devastated” for having inadvertently used the term “coloured” to describe black people on a US talk show. It’s depressing enough that he felt