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Metropolitan Police: Is Hate Now Illegal?

Mei Lin Chen

The Metropolitan Police Announce Bold New Strategy: Arrest Nothing, Record Everything The Metropolitan Police have unveiled what they describe as a modern, compassionate, data-driven approach to law enforcement, and what everyone else recognizes as policing by vibes. Under the new guidance, citizens are encouraged to report hate incidents even when no crime has occurred, no law has been broken, and no officer could possibly explain what they would do with the information…

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UK Government Still Can’t Define Islamophobia

Lotte Heidenreich

The UK Government Still Can’t Define Islamophobia, So It Defined Everything Around It Instead LONDON — After years of consultations, panels, sub-panels, advisory boards, working groups, steering committees, and one extremely long lunch, the UK government has reached a breakthrough on Islamophobia. It still cannot define it. What it can do, however, is describe the weather conditions surrounding it, the emotional tone of conversations near it, and the appropriate font size…