📢 A new Free Speech Bill has been proposed.
Barrister Jon Holbrook, a member of the Free Speech Union's Legal Advisory Council, has published an important report for the Prosperity Institute charting the decline of free speech in Britain and setting out a five-point Free Speech Bill to reverse it.
Jon argues that the expansion of vaguely defined speech offences — using terms such as "grossly offensive", "abusive", "insulting" and "stirring up" — has handed governments sweeping powers to decide what people can and cannot say.
His proposed Bill would repeal Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, abolish laws based on the concept of non-violent "hate speech", and restore the principle that free speech protects not only popular opinions, but also those that are contentious, provocative and unwelcome.
As Lord Frost writes in the foreword: "The chilling effect falls on all of us."
This is a welcome intervention as we fight to defend our right to freedom of speech in the UK.
Read the full report below 👇
Occasionally (not too often)...I share a video clip that should really be shared with every human on the planet. Seriously.
This is one of those - the only clip people need to see, on Rockefeller's Climate Change project:
The government are refusing to provide any meaningful answers about the
Peak Cluster Protect - a wholly unnecessary £5bn net zero scheme by saying it’s nothing to do with them.
Far from it - the Peak Cluster Project has deep, direct, structural and financial links to government…. Exposed here …
#peakcluster
In recent years, we’ve seen an onslaught of attacks on privacy & civil liberties in Britain.
It’s time for Labour to change course.
@andyburnham, will you stand up for our rights?
➡️https://t.co/fAa1RpIZXy
The Henry Ford Vax vs. Unvax Study with over 18,000 children was so damning that the pro vaccine researchers refused to publish it due to backlash concerns. Now you know why…
In a Lords debate this afternoon, Lord Young of Acton argued that if we want to restore public confidence in judges and the judiciary, we have to stop asking those applying for Silk and judicial appointments to affirm their commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.
Watch General Secretary of the Free Speech Union Lord Young below 👇
In 1968, researchers ran the largest randomised trial ever done on saturated fat.
Over 9,000 people in Minnesota state hospitals were split between animal fat and corn oil for years.
The corn oil group’s cholesterol dropped hard.
The full results never got published.
The raw data sat on magnetic tapes in a basement for over forty years.
A researcher named Christopher Ramsden tracked those tapes down in 2013 and ran the numbers the original team never released.
For every 30 point drop in cholesterol, death risk rose 22 percent.
The lower the cholesterol fell, the faster people died.
In the over 65s, each drop of roughly half a point on the cholesterol scale carried a 35 percent higher death risk within two years.
The trial is real.
It was double blind.
It was the gold standard design.
And it found the exact opposite of what dietary guidelines were about to be built on.
It sat unpublished for over forty years while the low fat, high vegetable oil advice became national policy.
This was not a small study lost in the noise.
It was the largest of its kind.
And the finding that mattered most never reached a single doctor’s desk for four decades.
As a Chester resident of over 20 years, I can confidently say Chester Races haven’t become violent riots.
This busy, mostly peaceful event is being used to normalise police facial scanning & blanket dispersal powers.
If they are a daily normal, your children will know no difference, accepting constant surveillance as part of freedom.
This month the Energy Secretary approved his third large solar farm in a fortnight, one of them on prime farmland across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire that his own inspectors told him to refuse. They walked the site. They said no. He signed it anyway.
So here's the grand plan. Take some of the best food-growing soil in England, ground that has fed people for a thousand years, and bury it under glass panels shipped in from China to catch the famous Lincolnshire sunshine. In a country where the sun knocks off mid-afternoon for half the winter and turns up for roughly eleven per cent of the year, we are concreting over arable land to harvest photons that mostly aren't there.
A British solar field spends most of its life doing an impression of a very expensive greenhouse with the plants missing. The panels tilt hopefully at a grey sky. The soil beneath them, some of the finest in the country, sits in the dark for forty years quietly learning to be a car park.
And it doesn't come back. Not in your lifetime. They are making a permanent decision about a temporary energy fashion, on ground you cannot un-glass, against the written advice of the men they pay to give it, in the same fortnight the same government swears food security keeps it awake at night.
Sunniest idea they've had all year.
NHS FRAUD CAUGHT ON CAMERA, NOBODY CARED
Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx gave the @NHS 30 years of clean service. Not one blemish. Then she did something apparently unforgivable. She noticed two consultant radiologists at Ealing Hospital, now part of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust @LNWH_NHS, were billing the NHS for shifts they were actually spending at a private hospital down the road.
Getting paid twice for the same hours. That is fraud everywhere except, it turns out, inside the NHS complaints system.
She reported it. To her line manager. To the Medical Director. To the HR Director. To Counter Fraud. To the Chief Executive. To Number 10. To the Treasury. She built a paper trail so thorough that ITV @itvnews later sent an undercover team into the hospital and filmed the same consultants years on, still taking cash from patients for private ultrasounds inside NHS premises.
The Trust's response to all that diligence was to sack her, based on counter allegations later shown to be fabricated.
The man behind those allegations reportedly signed off an email too crude to print here ..........
....... He picked up a Top Mentor award from the Trust that same year. You could not write comedy this good on purpose.
Sharmila took it to tribunal and won. She won her appeal too. The judge told the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no. She was then quietly blacklisted across the NHS. One job offer was withdrawn the moment they worked out who she was. Legal costs hit £130,000.
Somewhere in the middle of it she developed breast and lung cancer, which her doctors link to years of sustained stress.
The two consultants kept their jobs. George Osborne could not get involved. Andrew Lansley could not get involved. David Cameron could not get involved. Every one of them filed it under employment matter, which is Whitehall for we would rather not know.
A proven fraud case, covered by ITV @itvnews, the Guardian, Daily Mail @DailyMail, Channel 4 News @Channel4News, the Independent @Independent, BBC News @BBCNews, the Times @thetimes and the Daily Mirror @DailyMirror. The official position of Her Majesty's Government was still not our problem.
This is the reward system in action. Report fraud, lose your career, lose your health, and watch the people you reported get promoted.
Right, I’m doing this 24 hours early, because I want to get at least 1000 retweets! C’mon, do it for the lads out in the USA!
Get this retweeting!!!!
C’mon England!! 🏴🏴🏴🏴 Do it for Rik and all the lads on the Ark Royal!!! (Bless ‘em, they never forget an old serviceman).
“Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society, and if you really can’t take it, become a hermit.”
My favourite Ann Widdecombe speech 👏🇬🇧❤️
Imagine Moroccans chasing British Police in Britain & rioting on the streets of London because their football team lost… I expect Starmer to address the nation later with an update of mass arrests, immediate jail time, no bail & the advice to plead guilty! DEPORT!
Last night Muslim foreigners rioted in London over a football match. Far-right thugs? Fast track justice? Remanded in custody? Full force of the law? Or is that only for the white native British?
Met Police were chased out of London last night by hordes of Muslims.
One officer in hospital with serious injuries.
No Keir Starmer addressing the nation?
Telling they'll face the full force of the law?
Sadiq Khan not saying how "welcoming" London is?
David Lammy’s plan to appoint for diversity not merit is probably unlawful.
He refused to publish his legal advice, saying it’s not “in the public interest”.
He told me to submit an FOI.
The answer? It’s still not in the public interest.
What’s he hiding?
Labour wants to FORCE you to invest your pension money into UK projects, even if there is little prospect of a return
It will force pension managers to put your retirement savings into “state approved” categories of investment and call it “patriotic duty”
It isn’t! It’s theft