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A Sky News Australia report on the shooting of Sasha Johnson has received thousands of appreciative comments from the kind of people who share Her Majesty's Government's much-touted instinct for free speech among the deserving. Johnson, a Black Lives Matter activist who in all probability harbours an irrational hatred of statues and dislikes even the most positive aspects of slavery, was reviled as a criminal and preacher of violence while various persons with legitimate and understandable concerns called for all the usual. Celebrations of Global Britain's new trade deal with its former prison colony will gain an extra sparkle from this latest demonstration that British values are as rampant in the land of Rupert Murdoch's nativity as they are among the head-chopping House of Saud.