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On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player below, columnists Liam Halligan and ...
When Allison Pearson posted on X in the wake of the pro-Palestine protests, she never expected to find herself at the centre of a major police investigation. But on Remembrance Sunday, the award ...
Female journalists are rallying around Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson, saying they could be next to face police investigations for their social media posts or columns. Pearson is being ...
Essex Police has dropped its investigation into Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist, for an alleged hate crime. Pearson, an award-winning writer, was being investigated for allegedly ...
The Allison Pearson affair may superficially be about policing. But amidst the maelstrom it has shone a light on 4 P’s: personality, politics, policy, and populism in the county of Essex.
Allison Pearson, a columnist at The Daily Telegraph, was visited by two officers at her home in Saffron Walden, Essex on Remembrance Sunday as she was preparing to make her way to a memorial service.
This is how I feel about the treatment of Allison Pearson. We have completely different world views: I disagree strongly with some of her opinions and I am sure she does with mine.
The police force at the centre of the Allison Pearson row has not investigated a controversial imam who called for “Zionists” to be destroyed. Users of X, formerly Twitter, alerted Essex ...
Ms Pearson has now been asked to attend the police station and is minded to do so with a solicitor. There is no reason why she should be put to that inconvenience.