pjmedia.com Allison Pearson, a columnist and chief interviewer for The Daily Telegraph, was at her home getting ready for Britain’s Remembrance Sunday when two police officers appeared at her door. She thought they may have been there to tell her that her street was being closed for the parade, which is part of the observances. They were not.
Pearson was informed that she was under investigation for an infraction known in the U.K. as a non-crime hate incident, or NCHI for short. What triggered the inquiry? Pearson had posted something on X a year ago. Of course, she wanted to know the post to which the officers, or PCs, were referring. She was informed that the PCs were not allowed to tell her. Her next question, naturally, was who her accuser was. Again, the PCs were not allowed to tell her that, although they did correct her: the complainant was not the accuser but the victim. Writing about her experience in the Telegraph, Pearson commented:
“Today,” I began, trying to compose myself and aware of people on the other side of the street stopping to stare at the woman in a dressing gown addressing two coppers, “we are commemorating hundreds of thousands of British men, most of them roughly the age you two are now, who gave their lives so that we could live in a free country, not under the jackboot of tyranny. And you, YOU come here on this sacred day… You know, those soldiers, they could never have imagined that their country, our country, the country they died for, would ever become a place where the police would turn up at the door of a person who has done nothing wrong…”
I think that’s roughly what I said. It’s what I felt, anyway. And as I spoke, warming to my theme, which was freedom, I realised how truly appalling this was.
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