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Adventures on Thought Crime Island

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

Britain has broken out the banhammer and is coming after your favourite comedians. It’s also decided words matter more than deeds even if the deeds have fatal outcomes. Last week The Met boasted how it has 900 officers dedicated to chasing people down for writing rude words on Facebook while London is in the midst of a knife crime epidemic.

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