Deafening silence over real hatemongers

HAVING orchestrated online bullying campaigns against stationery chain Paperchase and Pizza Hut for entering into commercial partnerships with the Daily Mail and The Sun, self-appointed arbiters of free speech Stop Funding Hate have turned their attention on that well-known bastion of evil, the NSPCC.

Its crime? Daring to launch an appeal with readers of the Sunday Express. It’s funny, isn’t it, the lengths that this organisation will go to prevent companies — and now charities — taking part in joint ventures with newspapers whose editorial line they disapprove of.

And yet when it comes to the misuse of British taxpayers’ money, with millions being funnelled into the pockets of tyrants and jihadis via misdirected foreign aid — a scandal that was exposed by this very newspaper — their silence is deafening.

After all, why should they bother tackling genuine hatemongers when it is so much easier to seek to undermine the free Press, without which such grave abuses of power would never be exposed.