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Nigel Farage told a House committee that American citizens faced the risk of arrest if they traveled to the United Kingdom after making social media posts that fall foul of British laws on speech. The British politician, who is a member of Parliament and leads the country's right-wing Reform U.K. party, gave the warning after Irish comedian Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport over his X posts about transgender individuals. Free speech restrictions in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe have been a recurring topic of discussion for the right in the United States. But advocates of laws against...

in keeping with this week’s theme of immigration, power, and trust, let’s peruse the latest outrage reel from the UK. here we have a grown man with an immigrant accent (sounds pakistani or thereabouts to me but i could be wrong) following two young girls and badgering and filming them. one of the girls is armed. she’s not (at the start) threatening or seeking to threaten anyone, she’s trying to get away, trying to leave. but this guy is having none of it. he keeps coming and will not leave her alone. and he wants this documented and will not...