We have long been reporting here on TGP how failing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is leading the United Kingdom into a dark era of mass censorship in order to retain power.
That the attacks on free speech are getting worse in the UK, far from being our opinion, is a sheer and distressing reality that has now even merited mention by the US State Department.
In its annual Human Rights Report, released on Tuesday (12), it is stated that there are ‘credible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression’ in Britain.
The Telegraph reported:
“The “human rights situation worsened” in Britain in 2024, the report said, frequently referring to the period after Sir Keir Starmer won the election last July. It also criticized the Online Safety Act.”
NEW: US State Department accuses UK of “significant human rights issues” — including restricting free speech.
They point to Starmer’s Online Safety Act and censorship after Southport. pic.twitter.com/CVO0z2LRXB— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) August 13, 2025
Wow. A report from the US state department has just formally accused the UK of “backsliding on human rights” after the mainstreaming of antisemitism, free speech curbs on social media after Southport, and bans on silent prayer. THANK YOU AMERICA ⬇️
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) August 13, 2025
Following the Southport attack by a migrant last year, the UK Government ‘repeatedly intervened to chill speech’.
The Trump administration has mentioned Lucy Connolly, who is serving a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence over a social media post.
“After rumors spread online that the killer of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class was an illegal migrant, Connolly called for “deportation now” in a post on X, adding: ‘Set fire to all the [asylum] hotels for all I care’.”
She will only be released by late August.
“The report said that while media observers deemed these to be ‘especially grievous’ examples of government censorship, ‘censorship of ordinary Britons was increasingly routine, often targeted at political speech’.
[…] Officials who clamped down on free speech following the Southport murders should have been reprimanded, the report also appeared to suggest. It specifically referred to Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions, who warned those who ‘repost, repeat, or amplify a message which is false, threatening, or stirs up racial/religious hatred’ in the wake of the unrest that they could be prosecuted.”
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