Free speech, justice and the perils of state overreach

In a free society, the police ought to have neither the powers nor the priorities to pursue people over "non-crime hate incidents". The bar to criminal offences relating to speech must be high indeed.

Preamble — policing in Wycombe

In my many years as MP for Wycombe, I always regarded the duty of any MP to be by default on the side of the police, the emergency services, the armed forces and the int…