‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government & politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it.’

Britain’s free-speech wars are going global

Those 51 words earned Lucy Connolly – a babysitter from Northampton, in the East Midlands – the longest sentence ever handed down in the UK for a single social-media post. Last week, Connolly was released from prison, having served nine months of a 31-month term for “inciting racial hatred.”

She will serve the rest of her sentence on probation. But she is not going back to a quiet life, it seems. Indeed, she is fast becoming a totem in the transatlantic culture war

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