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Simon Isherwood has won a suit for being wrongfully fired from his job over remarks questioning so-called “white privilege”.

Brexit firebrand Nigel Farage has said that the Conservative Party is “doomed” to be ousted next election unless “by some miracle” Kemi Badenoch becomes Prime Minister.

Conservative Party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has said she would refocus police resources on street crime, not “hurt feelings”, as Prime Minister.

A number of Tory MPs have suddenly turned on a forthcoming online speech control bill, as the party prepares to elect a new Prime Minister.

Britain’s woke University of Bristol has banned a raft of supposedly offensive terms, including “gendered” words like “manpower” and “manning” and age-related nicknames like “millennial” and “baby boomer”. 

Half of the police officers who attended the Muslim Easter riots in the city of Örebro say they have experienced mental health problems following the violence that saw several officers attacked and injured.

A report conducted by a number of think tanks has found that so-called “disinformation” had little effect on recent elections in France.

British movie The Lady of Heaven has been banned in Morocco after Islamic authorities condemned it for presenting a version of Islamic history they disagree with and “hurting the feelings of Muslims”.

The British government’s advisor on Islamophobia has been revealed to support the Muslim protests against a supposedly “blasphemous” film.

Muslims in London have mobbed a cinema for showing an allegedly “blasphemous” film already pulled nationwide by one major chain amid safety fears.

Bowing to pressure from protests from Muslim groups, a British cinema chain has pulled all screenings of a film over “safety concerns”.

A number of NGOs in Europe are pushing for the population to use China-style software to report instances of racism, hate speech and “digital violence” to them.

Ireland’s leftist president has decried the purchasing of social media companies by billionaires as a “form of dictatorship” on a TV station owned by the Irish state.

A now-fired British police officer and former prison guard faces imprisonment for sending “grossly offensive” memes about George Floyd on WhatsApp.

Elon Musk has seemingly kowtowed to the EU on internet free speech, declaring he is “exactly aligned” with the bloc’s censorship regulations.

Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins has suggested that Elon Musk loosening speech restrictions on Twitter would be “incredible and dangerous narcissism”.

A survey done by Germany’s pro-censorship federal government has found that almost half of people in the country feel that accusations of racism and “political correctness” can stifle free speech.

A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.

The mayor for the city region of Liverpool, England has claimed advertisements on buses promoting an appearance by American evangelist Reverend Franklin Graham constitute “hate speech” and should be removed.

Almost a third of Swedes say they are for banning political demonstrations that are offensive to sections of the community following multi-day riots over Easter sparked by anti-Islam protesters burning copies of the Qur’an.

Nigel Farage says it is “crazy” that Donald Trump was banned from Twitter but the radical Islamic extremist Taliban remained on the platform even as it stormed Kabul.

A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has demanded that Elon Musk keeps Twitter ‘responsible’ through content censorship.

Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos criticized a fellow billionaire’s purchase of a media company on Tuesday by wondering if Communist China might use economic pressure against Elon Musk to gain “a bit of leverage” over Twitter. The Chinese Foreign Ministry brusquely labeled such ideas as “speculation . . . without any factual basis.”

Brazil’s O Globo newspaper reported on Monday that leftists in the nation’s Congress are planning to seek ways to limit conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s pardon powers after he used them to free lawmaker Daniel Silveira, who the nation’s top court sentenced to eight years in prison last week for political comments broadcast on Youtube.

Another big tech clampdown on free speech online appears to be forthcoming after the European Union agreed in principle more online censorship laws on Saturday.

Lithuania’s parliament has successfully cancelled part of the alphabet, passing a law that will see the symbolic use of the letters ‘Z’ and ‘V’ banned over their links with Russia.

A British judge on Wednesday formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges.

Male-to-female transgender police in the UK are fully permitted to strip-search biologically female suspects according to newly seen police guidelines.

Family members of teacher Samuel Paty, who was murdered by a Chechen refugee in 2020, have filed a complaint against the French government for not doing enough to prevent his death.

Christian satire site the Babylon Bee, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson are all still locked out of their Twitter accounts for posting that transgender Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assistant secretary Rachel Levine is a biological male.

Germany’s left-wing Chancellor has openly verbally attacked a group of anti-lockdown protesters, accusing them of lying.

A Scottish man has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service after being found guilty of writing a “grossly offensive” tweet.

A lawyer fined £500 ($660) by regulators after saying that “free speech is dying and Islamists and other Muslims are playing a central role” has won an appeal to the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service.

Ukraine’s ‘Democratic’ government has demanded that all countries across the world ‘criminalize’ the use of Russia’s ‘Z’ symbol.

A number of federal states in Germany have said that the symbolic use of the letter ‘Z’ can now be considered a criminal offence.

The British government has claimed they will give free speech a “trump card” status in an effort to combat woke cancel culture, despite the fact it is currently legislating to increase censorship online.