Mark Steyn says, in Britain everything is policed but crime. An excellent example of this is the treatment of Graham Linehan who has been hounded through the courts and police stations by the Old Bill. Given Linehan is something of a free speech martyr I expect to see him on RTÉ News pronto.

Never mind that robberies, muggings and other serious offences are often not investigated in the UK. Never mind that both the Southport and Nottingham inquiries into the brutal murders of three school girls and killings of two students and a caretaker respectively have already found serious police failings.  If either Alex Rudakubana or Valdo Calocane were white middle-aged blokes tweeting unapproved opinions on transgenderism they would have been attested. If you tweet ‘mean’ things about transgenderism, expect a visit from the Met police. If you commit actual violent offences, you might just get a warning.

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