Choosing Sides

An official message from the French government via its mission to the United Nations:

#EuropeProtects #DSAProtects #DemocracyNotAlgoracy pic.twitter.com/JvQwkGscj6

— La France à l'ONU 🇫🇷🇺🇳 (@franceonu) July 14, 2025

That's a definition of free speech we can all get behind! You have the right to say whatever you want as long as the government has graciously agreed to permit it.

What's somewhat dispiriting about the brazen authoritarianism of the above is that, after my hard-fought battle in Canada, I am well aware that, wherever you live, half your neighbours will accept that this definition sounds eminently reasonable.

What does that boil down to in practice? Well, in order to prevent you noticing that a significant proportion of the chaps who enjoy stabbing and raping your daughters seem to be "migrants", among the things Keir Starmer is declaring to be "illegal content" is "Islamophobia":

LABOUR'S plans for a definition of Islamophobia are aimed at shutting down free speech, Britain's ex-equalities chief warned...