(Chesterton, 1922, Chapter 1).

Agamben -We are experiencing the end of an era in the political history of the West, the era of bourgeois democracy founded on constitutions, on rights, on parliaments, and on the division of powers.

With complete disregard for free speech, since 2014 U.K. police have kept a database of people whose speech is perceived as ‘motivated by a hostility’ to race, gender, or other protected categories. 

https://www.thefire.org/news/uk-polices-speech-chilling-practice-tracking-non-crime-hate-incidents

Calls to make Islamophobia a specific crime in the wake of riots threaten free speech, MPs have warned.

There is no single agreed definition of anti-Muslim hatred but Labour has previously signalled its support for one.

Left-wing Labour MPs and Muslim groups have urged Sir Keir Starmer to take a stronger stance on Islamophobia after a far-Right mob attacked a mob in Southport last week. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-crime-of-islamophobia-in-wake-of-riots-would-threaten-free-speech/ar-AA1odsCu?ocid=BingNewsSerp

British police are now raiding homes of elderly people because they posted "offensive" comments on social media. The stasi has returned.

"There exists to-day a scheme of action, a schoool of thought [...] called for convenience "Eugenics"; and that it ought to be destroyed I propose to prove in the pages that follow. I know that it means very different things to different people; but that is only because evil always takes advantage of ambiguity [...] and Eugenics itself, in large quantities or small, coming quickly or coming slowly, urged from good motives or bad, applied to a thousand people or applied to three, Eugenics itself is a thing no more to be bargained about than poisoning."

https://x.com/i/status/1820552987208765885. A video of such a raid. Eugenics is such a touchy topic.

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