In February, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer sat down with Fox News’ Bret Baier, who asked him a question about Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of both Britain and the European Union’s censorship of free speech. Starmer responded, “We don’t believe in censoring speech…we champion free speech in the United Kingdom.”
The 2023 case of a man accused of thought crimes would indicate otherwise. Julian Foulkes, a retired special constable from Gillingham, Kent, did nothing but make a concerned response to an X post about the pro-Palestine protests that had erupted in the U.K. and the United States.
The post thread (which appears to have been deleted) was in response to a conversation between a user named “Mr Ethical” and Suella Braverman, then a member of Parliament. Mr Ethical wrote to Braverman, “as someone who was on one of the ‘hate…
