This article has been withdrawn. The Restorationist voluntarily offers a full and complete apology to Mr Shukman and Hope Not Hate.
Roughly fifty countries have already taken the poison offered in Cardiff Bay this week. The flags went up, the contracts changed hands, and the people in whose name it was done spent the next forty years paying interest on the difference. As soon as politicians get discretion, economies collapse.
A campaign group counted Britain's communications arrests. The police records show something stranger, and much harder for the Home Office to answer: the total is not a count of people, and most of it is threats - which isn't speech. These laws weren't meant for the Internet.
71% of senior civil servants come from a privileged background. Those are the people about to acquire a legal duty to correct everyone else's "equality of outcome" using rules they will write themselves, with no Bill, no vote, and no way back. Will this ideological Boomer stupidity ever end?
Britain shut 298 libraries and cut library spending by nearly a third, then built a technology which recreates the precise inequality the Victorians founded them to fix. The buildings are still standing. We can restore the greatest source of free knowledge and education in the world.
