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The UK is using its borders to create a nation-sized “safe space.”
What connects the rapper Kanye West, pick-up artist Julien Blanc, and left-wing broadcaster Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks YouTube channel? All three are Americans who have been banned from visiting the UK, as their presence has been deemed “not conducive to the public good”—which is essentially British bureaucrat-speak for “they have expressed views that some might find offensive.”
The UK has a notoriously lax approach to illegal migrants who traverse the English Channel on small boats. On arrival, even hardened criminals are regularly offered free accommodation, access to public services, and “human rights” protections that ensure they won’t be deported. Expressing controversial opinions, in contrast, may be the one thing that spurs the British government to pull up the drawbridge.
Uygur and his nephew, the livestreaming mega-star Hasan Piker, are among the latest alleged troublemakers to be blocked from entering Britain. The Home Office confirmed in early June that both have had their electronic travel authorization revoked, scuppering their plans to speak at the London arm of the SXSW arts and technology festival. Uygur had also been due to appear in person on Piers Morgan: Uncensored and Piker at the Oxford Union, a debating society founded in 1823.
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What connects the rapper Kanye West, pick-up artist Julien Blanc, and left-wing broadcaster Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks YouTube channel? All three are Americans who have been banned from visiting the UK, as their presence has been deemed “not conducive to the public good”—which is essentially British bureaucrat-speak for “they have expressed views that some might find offensive.”
The UK has a notoriously lax approach to illegal migrants who traverse the English Channel on small boats. On arrival, even hardened criminals are regularly offered free accommodation, access to public services, and “human rights” protections that ensure they won’t be deported. Expressing controversial opinions, in contrast, may be the one thing that spurs the British government to pull up the drawbridge.
Uygur and his nephew, the livestreaming mega-star Hasan Piker, are among the latest alleged troublemakers to be blocked from entering Britain. The Home Office confirmed in early June that both have had their electronic travel authorization revoked, scuppering their plans to speak at the London arm of the SXSW arts and technology festival. Uygur had also been due to appear in person on Piers Morgan: Uncensored and Piker at the Oxford Union, a debating society founded in 1823.
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Why Britain Banned Hasan Piker
The UK is using its borders to create a nation-sized “safe space.”
