Winston Smith

It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Rick Rowe the Green Party candidate has just been out to the pub I’m in after sending the police here earlier. He threatened me and grabbed my phone. His boyfriend was here too, filming me for half the evening. What you going to do @metpoliceuk ?

[Winston Smith @CafeAllen]

@London_W4 @Karenfielding6 A 100% sane response to outrageous intimidation tactics from goons formerly known as the police.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

I mean. Yes this is incredibly sinister. Yes it is unlawful.

Yes @London_W4 is rightly intimidated by the Officers behaviour

But as we break as a society. As the only divide becomes The Decent v The Automata.

How pathetic this Officer is. They are supposed to be heros

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

It is a bit late for Lisa Nandy to profess to be a staunch supporter of free speech — only to then leave X.

@lisanandy has served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in one of the most authoritarian governments in modern times, whose policies have posed a direct threat to free speech.

As a close ally of our next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, should she remain in post, she will undoubtedly be the figure leading Andy Burnham’s war on the free press.

If Lisa Nandy truly cares about free speech and tackling misinformation and disinformation, she should engage in debate, not vacate the stage.

More conversation, not less.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

In all seriousness

She should resign.

She is supposed to freely and fairly regulate the Media. She can't let her bias show.

It's corruption.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

It's her concern over free speech that made her disable comments

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

Presidents, prime ministers, even the Pope still use X. But Labour ministers seek to stigmatise it, presumably as a prelude to prohibition. Our government is terrified of a medium that destroys the MSM monopoly on information, and puts it - often messily - into the hands of all.

[Ben Habib @benhabib6]

While you’re at it leave the platform of government. That platform too was originally designed to protect free speech and democracy. No longer under you lot.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Fair enough, obviously. No one has to stay. Still, I’m struck by the number of people who liked this platform when it DID practice censorship, but who are now upset when it DOESN’T.

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

His lying and gaslighting just doesn’t stop.

The ‘man’ needs to be shunned once he’s out of office.

[Winston Smith @CafeAllen]

@DrChrisParry Why wait?

[Winston Smith @CafeAllen]

@SBarrettBar Rumpole must be introduced as required reading in all schools.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Interested Chiswick locals at The City Barge right now, posing for The Telegraph about the Green Party councillor Rick Rowe forcing the pub to take their outside seating away. Seating that’s been there at least seventy years. I stood out of the photo because as you know, I’m shy.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

French woman Thais d'Escufon was sexually assaulted by a Tunisian migrant. She then appeared on TV and complained that mass immigration of African and Arab men to Europe was putting women at risk.

Who do you think was prosecuted? The Tunisian man who committed a sex crime against a vulnerable woman, or the woman who complained about it?

This is Europe. It's 2026. Obviously, the woman's been prosecuted and found guilty of "racism".

Apparently, protecting women is context-dependent. In the West, we veer from "believe all women" to "punish the victims" depending on the attacker's skin colour.

[bryan mathieson @bmmtweet]

An absolute disgrace, spent many happy hours here in decades gone by . @LBofHounslow , get a grip and let the folks of this area enjoy what they have done for years and clean up your own dump of a backyard. Normal uk people want to sit outside enjoying a drink and a meal as old Father Thames laps in and out .Green stands for Mean , how can the populous be so dumb as to be taken in by yet another tree hugging dreamer .

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Just one of thousands of decisions bleeding the life out of this country. I know it sounds ridiculous, but denying us the right to sit by a river on a hot day having a pint is to deny one of the great pleasures of life. This should be the rubicon by which we reclaim sanity.

[Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG]

What the hell? @LBofHounslow is this true? And if so why are you doing this? @hammersmithandy can you help?

[Winston Smith @CafeAllen]

@London_W4 Bit by bit…

Everything precious

Is being dismantled.