Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson faces 'Kafkaesque' investigation over alleged hate crime
For those of you who haven't read Kafka, his book The Trial is about a defendant who is never told the nature of the crime for which he is charged.
Alison Pearson is a journalist for The Telegraph, a London paper. Before it disappeared completely behind a paywall many years ago, it was one of my principle sources of news. It seemed less biased than anything media in the US about what was happening in the US, and it had excellent coverage of what was happening in the UK and Europe.
She recounts the day that two police officers arrived early on a Sunday morning to tell her she was under investigation.
In an article for The Telegraph, she said she was told by one officer that “I was accused of a non-crime hate incident. It was to do with something I had posted on X a year ago. A YEAR ago? Yes. Stirring up racial hatred apparently.”
When Pearson asked what she had allegedly said in the tweet, the officer said he was not allowed to disclose it.
The specter of Nineteen Eighty-Four comes up as well. Understandable given that the United Kingdom seems to waging an all-out war on freedom, particularly the freedom of speech. (More like Airstrip One every day.)
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