On a Sunday morning, the Essex police showed up at the home of Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson to interrogate her, because she had tweeted a photo of Manchester police officers posing with representatives of the Islamist Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, some of whose leading members were recently charged with terrorism offenses.
Pearson’s crime, for which Essex police formed a “gold group” normally used for dealing with major crimes, was tweeting “look at this lot smiling with the Jew haters” about the ugly photo.
