‘Authoritarian’: UK police to monitor social media posts for anti-migrant sentiment

Spiked Online Editor Tom Slater discusses the growing UK protests outside migrant hotels and the special police taskforce designed to monitor and track anti-migrant sentiment online.

“Yet more proof that this government is as authoritarian as it is stupid,” Mr Slater said.

“It’s authoritarian because it is obsessed with policing speech.

“This is a government forced to censor because it cannot listen.”