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3 years in prison for thought crimes… ‘the incitement of disharmony, based on an intent to stir up, maintain or normalise hatred, through threatening, abusive or insulting communications’. …bewilderingly the NZ Left see no danger with this, but what happens when the Right are back in power and they decide the definition should include climate change activists? This looming hate speech debate is supposedly a response to the white supremacist terror attack in Christchurch, but the s...

including a clarified definition of a “terrorist act” – in response to the Christchurch terror attack. It’s the Government’s first step in implementing recommendation 18 of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the attacks on March 15, 2019, which called for a review of all legislation related to counter-terrorism in New Zealand. Justice Minister Kris Faafoi promised the changes in December after the release of the recommendations. He acknowledged the need to “move our legislation to...

Are you ready folks? 2021 is the year when the NZ Free Speech vs Hate Speech debate explodes, destroying friendships, cancelling half the country and abusing the remaining rest. Alliances will be torn asunder, political debate will never be the same and a level of toxicity will seep into public discourse that will ensure a polarisation unseen in NZ. When the insanity of what is about to be released is over and the wasted political landscape despoiled, not one New Zealander will be safer from wh...

This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time... Share Copy An "error" in a "standard housekeeping process" on the UK’s controversial Police National Computer (PNC) database has led to the deletion of more than 150,000 DNA, fingerprint and other records, the Home Office has confirmed. The PNC - the national law enforcement DB that holds personal info on people arrested by the police as well as data on people who have been questioned by police but never charged or convicted of any o...

Did John le Carré steal story of MI6 spy for one of his bestsellers? George Pendle For The Mail On Sunday © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo It was December 1996 and my father had just bought a copy of John le Carrés newly published spy thriller, The Tailor Of Panama. When he saw that the books hero had almost the same surname as him, he smiled.  But the further he read, the more the coincidences began to pile up, and by the time hed reached the end, he was astonishe...

It was December 1996 and my father had just bought a copy of John le Carrés newly published spy thriller, The Tailor Of Panama. When he saw that the books hero had almost the same surname as him, he smiled.  But the further he read, the more the coincidences began to pile up, and by the time hed reached the end, he was astonished. This wasnt a fictional spy tale, he told himself. This was the story of his own fathers life. Dad was amazed but also angry. He had known that his father worked for...