Naturally then, the leftist establishment press, such as Britain’s BBC, has effectively dismissed the annual document as “downscaled.” That’s much easier, after all, than admitting to our failures.

According to the reports, the human rights situation has “worsened” in Germany, France, and the UK over the past year. In each case, officials have been accused of overseeing restrictions on freedom of expression, including in Britain and France via the “enforcement of or threat of criminal or civil laws in order to limit expression.”

Censorship—as well as two-tier policing—under Keir Starmer’s government following last year’s Southport triple murder is given particular attention in the UK report, although its authors note that even beyond this event, “censorship of ordinary Britons was increasingly routine, often targeted at political speech.”