Two connected things over there

in Britain: One, like in places here, the associations are causing real problems.  Like the police chief who, when officers showed up at his house because of his abusing his wife, told them not to arrest people for that because it's not a real crime, and should be handled in the mosque by sharia law.

And, I think connected, is the new Brit version of "You can say anything you want as long as we approve of it."
On September 22, Britain’s new (and unelected) Prime Minister Andy Burnham took to the stage at the U.N. and announced a new “National Centre for Information Defence” to “detect, attribute, and disrupt” hostile state information attacks.

The Right has correctly criticized this for being akin to Orwell’s terrifying “Ministry of Truth.” Our American cousins should be as concerned as we are because the Democrats will be sure to use this as a blueprint.

But this announcement is so pernicious because there is actually some merit in highlighting the kind of information warfare that is being waged against Western populations. But none of us can trust our own governments, given their recent track records, to have such power over information.
From bits and pieces that do get out, an awful lot of Brits are telling the .gov in general, and the police in particular, to go to hell.
The Jerusalem Cross is going up on A-road lampposts. Richard the Lionheart kit at Reform rallies. Templars at Tommy Robinson marches. “Christ is King!” cried by Danny Tommo and his lot down in Dover. Crusader crosses are quietly usurping the Cross of St George — itself a crusader cross — at Portsmouth, London and points between. The algorithm is pumping out AI knight reels faster than a medieval pope pumping out papal bulls. England is Crusadesmaxxing. 

Which must be driving the government nuts.  Which brings something to mind:
One of my gripes with Heinlein was his insistance in one or two stories that the Crusades were primarily to send younger sons off to cause trouble somewhere other than back home.  Among problems with that:
The number of kings, and older sons, nobility in general who swore to go and went.
There really was war between invading muslims and Christians and Jews.
And it's still going on in many places.
Heinlein had an argument, but I think he got this wrong.