Allison Pearson’s ‘racist’ tweet is at centre of Telegraph’s row with police

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Daily Telegraph readers have woken up this week to successive front-page headlines alleging a grave threat to free speech, triggered by a star columnist's Kafkaesque" encounter with police.

The rightwing broadsheet described how Essex police had told Allison Pearson on her doorstep last weekend that she was under investigation for allegedly stirring up racial hatred in a tweet last year.