Allison Pearson was visited by the police after she was accused of a non-criminal hate speech offence. Now she describes her experience of what she describes as a “week in hell”.

Pearson wasn’t told what she had done wrong, nor was she told who had accused her. It was straight out of The Trial by Franz Kafka. In an op-ed in The Telegraph, she describes her experience.

The eye of the storm is a very scary place to be; dark thoughts intrude. You shudder when you see your own name in headlines with terrible, hurtful words like “hate” and “racist”.

Pearson describes in an op-ed in The Telegraph how her head buzzed as she asked herself the question: Have I done something wrong? But she knew she had done nothing wrong.</p

Yet she felt like part of a shipwreck, her fingers growing colder and colder as she clung to something liquid, losing her grip.

Why not stop fighting and let yourself go under? I understand why people under such pressure take their own lives. Make it go away, please, just make it go away.

That’s how this Kafka process works. Someone who probably hates me because I’m a conservative or a woman with a platform or a blonde, conservative woman who defends farmers or small business people or Jews complains to the police about a tweet I posted.

Pearson wonders why the police don’t ask some simple questions to the person who made the accusation. Such as:

“Sir, do you happen to be a lifelong Labour voter and possible Catweazle lookalike who can’t stand loud Tory women, or have you been to any of the pro-Palestine marches and believe Israel shouldn’t exist?”

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Of course, the police don’t ask any questions. The reason is simple: once a person makes an accusation of imagined offence, that person is considered the “victim”. This is how what I have described as bullying capital works in practice.

A single complaint – weighed against 35 years of journalism that millions of people agree with – is enough to send the police to the door.

The whole woke hysteria and offence mafia has introduced a system where no one is innocent until proven guilty. The accusation is also immediately both the judgement and the punishment. We saw repeated examples of this in the insane #MeToo wave.

People were completely exonerated from the accusations, but were still left alone without jobs, income and friends.

It’s obviously tempting to blame the Starmer regime for this madness, and the Tory Party’s new leader Kemi Badenoch has also been out to criticise the police. Badenoch says it’s “completely wrong” for the police to visit a journalist at home just because they’ve expressed an opinion.</p

Firstly, it’s probably wrong for the police to come to anyone’s home, not just journalists, because they have an opinion. But freedom of speech is soooo old-fashioned.

The most important point, however, is that this is not something that was created by Labour. It was while the Conservative Party was in power for 14 years that this trend grew so strong.

Several years ago, the Metropolitan Police boasted that they had over 1,000 police officers working solely to combat hate speech. Stabbings, rapes and massive Jew-hatred are blithely ignored. Climate hooligans like Just Stop Oil are allowed to do exactly as they please.

But if you say that a man can’t be a lesbian mum, you can expect hours of police questioning and months of investigation in Norway too.

In a free society, it should be completely unreasonable for the police to turn up at your door at 9.40am on Remembrance Sunday and tell you that you’re in trouble because of a social media post made over 12 months ago (while refusing to tell you what the post said or who it offended). It’s actually quite crazy.

Pearson says Brits need to get back to the old Britain, the country they loved and trusted, the country where banter was part of the culture and no one was visited by the police if they said something rude.

Instead, the Labour government wants to introduce surveillance in pubs to ensure that even people who have had a pint or three don’t allow themselves to say anything that some idiot might find offensive.

A police officer in Essex tells Pearson that what’s happening is that the police leadership is determined to carry out “the pursuit of a progressive Nirvana”. That’s why the police are focusing on trans rights and ignoring car thefts and violence.

The “social justice” that the police chief seems to care about – equity, diversity and inclusion – is a far cry from the justice the community he’s meant to serve cares about: you know, catching the bad guys and making the world a safe place for our kids.

Right after the 7th of October massacres, Pearson and friends demonstrated in support of victimised Israel. They asked to take a selfie with two police officers, but they refused. Shortly afterwards, she sees the police taking a selfie with Hamas supporters who want to exterminate all of Israel.

This week’s Jewish Chronicle reports that police have dropped their investigation into an imam who called on Allah to “destroy Jewish homes” in London.

That’s how it’s become, throughout the West. It’s not as bad in Norway, but Barth Eide and co are working hard to move us in the same direction, and the tool is the terrible and anti-democratic § 185.

Replacing the Labour Party with the Conservatives won’t help in the slightest, they are completely united in their attacks on freedom of expression and property rights.

Labour MP Dawn Butler shared a tweet in which she accused Kemi Badenoch of representing “white supremacy in black face”. No reaction from the police, obviously a conservative politician can’t be a victim!

According to the Free Speech Union, 65 so-called NCHI (non-criminal hate incidents) are registered daily. Why should the police waste their time on something that they themselves define as non-criminal?

Because the reports have consequences. People lose their jobs, are pilloried in the brutal British press, and can even lose friends. The threat works, and Brits quickly learn that the best thing to do is keep their mouths shut.

We must refuse to shut up. Personally, I have no need for friends who can’t stand to hear what I think, and often you’re surprised: Many people share your opinions, even if they are so-called controversial.

So to Støre, Solberg, Barth Eide and all the others: We don’t care what you think, and we have absolutely no respect for your hate speech. If you have a problem with this, send in the emergency response team.

Interested parties can watch Allison Pearson being interviewed by Nigel Farage on GB News below: