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Has the UK Home Office Just Ended This Orwellian Policy or Merely Redefined It?

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  April 02, 2026 1:30 PM

We've seen countless stories out of the U.K. of police being dispatched to harass and arrest Britons for "offensive" social media posts. It makes us incredibly grateful for the First Amendment, because that's a firewall between the totalitarian Left speech police doing the same thing here.

But now the Home Office is saying the police will stop investigating legal social media posts. It's actually quite the stunning admission, too. They admit that police were wasting their time investigating the posts, and that took away from tackling actual crime in the U.K.

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Yet concerns remain that this isn't a fundamental shift in policy, but an Orwellian rewording of a widely unpopular policy.

Kotsoglou continues by explaining what a "Non-Hate Crime Incident" (NHCI) is. It's complex, but boils down to this: if we don't like what you said, or it hurts someone's feelings, it's an NHCI.

He calls this a "reclassification, not abolition" of the policy.

"A curious maneuver: lawful speech—protected as expression—ceases to be logged as an NCHI, only to reappear as “anti-social behavior” when perceived as offensive or hateful. Not repeal, but relabelling; not reform, but semantic drift," Kotsoglou wrote.

As we said, confessing to such investigations was a waste of time that took resources away from actual crime is an incredible admission. Last month, London politicians recommended that buses in the city carry "deep wound stab kits" to help save lives, and it's not because people posted a meme on Facebook.

"Were you getting scared that Trump was taking out dictators and thought you guys may be next? Will you actually be going after all thebrale gangs and jihadists now? Or by your standards, is that still not considered as worthy of a crime to investigate as someone stating facts about gender, Islam, your tyrannical government?" they wrote.

It's absolutely insane.

We think reparations are in order, frankly.

Yes, it is.

They wanted to bully, harass, and intimidate people into not speaking freely. That's all that is.

The Left believes they can, and should, control speech. They'll turn around and say conservatives are fascists and authoritarians while they push "hate speech" laws on us and send police to investigate what the U.K. Home Office just admitted was legal speech all along.