BREAKING: @northumbriapol have sent a letter. They have completely capitulated. No cops marching in Pride. No livery on cars or stands. No flags or lanyards. Nothing. They are abandoning it all. @RightNUFC.

We have some sympathy with the police. The Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act in 2012 slipped into law ‘transgender identity’ as a ‘monitored strand’ for the purposes of hate crime. No one noticed. No one objected. No one defined it. It is not a protected.

RT @OwenLEvans: @WeAreFairCop said it remains ”very concerned that this level of unlawful police overreach is further evidence that the pol….

Sadly no. Sex was not added to the ‘monitored strands’ for hate crime as the police candidly admitted they would be overwhelmed by misogynistic hate crime. @Glinner was arrested because he dared to offend against the monitored strand of ‘trans gender identity’. This is NOT a.

RT @SVPhillimore: One of the many (deliberately?) confusing things about this area of law is that the criminal law operates with five 'moni….

RT @SVPhillimore: This is very concerning from the Chief Constable. Of course police officers have a choice. This was made very clear in th….

RT @joshxhowie: If what happened to @glinner shocks you, for the last four years there has been one TV programme in the UK dedicated to exp….

RT @TheFP: Five British police officers just arrested a comedian for his posts on X. As J.K. Rowling put it: ‘This is totalitarianism. Utte….

RT @FemaleScotlandV: Impartiality.

The arrest yesterday of @Glinner by 5 armed officers for 3 tweets, shows how urgent it is to make the police understand their fundamental duty of impartiality - to treat us all without fear or favour. We will go after every force if we have to. Let go, or be dragged.

RT @JournalistJill: On BBC Five Live just now Green Party leader Zack Polanski said (with straight face) . ‘Should someone be able to say y….

RT @LissaKEvans: I’m trying to imagine a situation in which I phoned the Metropolitan Police to report three tweets, & they not only phoned….

RT @robjessel16: Jo poses the question no one else is asking: What dirt do the transactivists on top coppers that they can get rank-and-fil….

Glinner’s arrest as it happened

RT @sarahstuartxx: Morning! 😂😂😂😂

RT @joenutt_author: A perfect example of how the stupidity that is 'hate crime' has actually incentivised real hate - from the kind of indi….

RT @helenlewis: Graham Linehan thinks I'm a "cynical, careerist hack" because I don't share his views. I think he's an obsessive, rude jerk….

RT @ExInspectorBDS: @WeAreFairCop This is a pivotal moment. Most of these issues go under the radar for most working people. But, when it….

The hope is that a few high profile arrests/convictions will terrify others into being their own jailers. It’s a neat strategy when it works.

RT @marycatedelvey: @jk_rowling @TomsTidbits Yup!! I bet none of the men who wrote these threatening things to you were arrested! 😡 https:/….

RT @Baroness_Nichol: To be honest - Glinner’s arrest is the peak of Woke lunacy. The fake mountain of rubble will now crumble and disappear….