Dear England: Are you off your meds? Your Canadian cousin is concerned.
A letter from a very, very concerned relative who remembers Churchill, Mill, and Magna Carta — and now sees you arresting pensioners for saying “muppet.”
If you believe in free speech—not the bumper sticker, but the unruly, rabid mongrel that snarls at polite society—then you can help keep it alive here. Every paid subscription buys me time to write without kowtowing to the kind of people who think “problematic” is an argument. And lawyers and bureaucrats have already tried to shut it down.
I said no, and…



