Police Scotland discovers just 3 per cent of 7,000 complaints are actually hate crimes

Apr 15, 2024 by

from The Christian Institute: Police Scotland has been flooded with over 7,000 hate crime complaints in the first week of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act coming into force, but only three per cent were assessed to be criminal acts. In...

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J. K. Rowling’s courageous stand for truth

Apr 8, 2024 by

By Kurt Mahlburg, Mercator. This year’s was a particularly memorable April Fools’ Day. First, Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into force, making it illegal to “stir up hatred” against people based on their age,...

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Resisting oppressive hate crime laws will come at a cost

Apr 6, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, Christian Today: Feminists in Scotland are closing ranks against the SNP’s new hate crime law in Scotland, but how will orthodox Christians fare under the regime? Harry Potter author JK Rowling, the most high-profile...

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Where is the outcry from British Churches on ‘nightmarish’ nature of Scotland’s new ‘thought crime’ law?

Apr 5, 2024 by

by Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald: Not so very long ago, there was a simpler time when discussion about JK Rowling in Catholic circles was generally limited to a discussion between diocesan exorcists and fans of the Harry Potter books....

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It’s not just Scots whose free speech is under threat

Apr 3, 2024 by

by Lauren Smith, spiked: If Rishi Sunak really cared about free expression, he would scrap the UK’s tyrannical hate-speech laws. Earlier this week, the authoritarian Hate Crime Act came into effect in Scotland. Anyone caught ‘stirring up...

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JK Rowling has exposed the absurdity of Scotland’s Hate Crime Act

Apr 2, 2024 by

by Stephen Daisley, Spectator: Humza Yousaf’s illiberal Hate Crime Act is now in force and its first day has been a doozy. The SNP’s minister for victims and community safety Siobhian Brown admitted on the Today programme that Scots could...

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