The government is looking to expand the number of “protected characteristics” for hate crimes to include men, old people, and Goths, as the number of recorded hate incidents in every category increased to a new record high.
The policing watchdog has claimed that Britain leaving the European Union next year will trigger a rise in “hate crimes”, and that officers should be responding to any report of a hate crime within one hour of reporting.
The British people largely did not vote to leave the European Union (EU) because they are racist and the public’s desire for control over immigration is not driven by prejudice, a report has found.
Between 2016 and 2017 there was the largest ever rise in reported “hate crimes,” yet the number of prosecutions actually fell.
Britain’s decision to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s presidency in the U.S. have made both nations less attractive to migrants, according to InterNations’ Expat Insider survey.
MPs have demanded that tech firms be fined tens of millions of pounds for failing to remove ‘hateful’ material from their websites.
Police investigating a suspected hate attack that left a Kurdish Iranian teen fighting for his life have released pictures of three people they wish to identify and question.
Head of Durham University Law School Professor Thom Brooks has told a Commons inquiry that people found guilty of committing ‘hate crimes’ should be put on an official register. A professor of law and government at the university, Brooks advised
Politicians encourage hate crimes by discussing Brexit, and formally triggering the process will bring anti-migrant attacks to “another level”, MPs have been told.
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has released a report in which it claims that policies to control immigration have caused a “rapid rise in racial violence”.
Yvette Cooper has announced that MPs will look into how social media companies can censor a “tide of hate”, and strongly implied that freedom of speech should mean freedom from criticism in remarks ahead of a new inquiry into “hate crime”.
The Brexit campaign caused the British people to verbally and physically attack lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people en masse, left-wing groups have claimed.
The Guardian has directly linked Brexit to colonialism and slavery, claiming “the surge in hate crime since the Brexit vote is one legacy of an overlooked period of British history”.
Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, Diane Abbott, has claimed racists who want to see “less foreign-looking people on their streets” drove the Brexit vote, which “added another turn of the screw to rising racism”.
