Thomas Pilchard

Classical liberal, radical, contrarian, conservative, minarchist. Free markets, free peoples, free speech. #FSU #IEA #TPA No lanyards.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Yet more evidence the police are very, very bad at understanding the limits of their role and the importance of free speech in a democracy. What on *earth* did they think they were they doing asking a journalist to cease their investigation like this?

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

In other words, it was already extremely clear this was not just a right-wing pile-on (and even if it had been, the Cofnas plagiarism accusations were detailed enough that they couldn’t be dismissed). Yet the grifters went on with the grift anyway.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

It is worth repeating that the grifters at @GoodLawProject launched their petition in support of Arday after not just the Cofnas allegations of plagiarism but the accusations of fabrication from Retraction Watch and revelation re TES/Carter-Ruck. (1/2)

[Jack Grove @jgro_the]

I was reported to police over the Arday case. I was doing my job https://t.co/3KuwIhpi37

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Jonathan Sacerdoti was reported by a Green Party councillor to the police for 'harassment' because he argued with her when she turned up on his doorstep to canvas for his vote. Incredibly, the police investigated, but @speechunion was able to help. https://t.co/hGw7l1OBME

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

There’s story after story that demonstrates there are many frontline police officers who don’t understand the law on free speech and their role in relation to it.

https://t.co/pV3uNkAz9A

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“Freedom has prevailed where you have capitalism. And so has the well-being and prosperity of the ordinary men.”

— Milton Friedman

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

YOUGOV: Labour and Reform Battle for First as Tories Dip by Two Points https://t.co/AyrPdGA43I

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The planned early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers is a test of whether the justice system still places victims and public safety ahead of prison management targets, says Paul Birch. It does not.
https://t.co/3hhsN14ZlI

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

A journalist cautioned by police for asking questions? This is Britain, for the love of God, not Russia.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Since the Free Speech Union was founded in February 2020, we have fought more than 6,000 cases defending our members’ right to free speech.

We now have more than 46,000 members — a huge increase from July 2024, when we had just 14,000.

The threat to free speech has never been more acute. On average, our case team now receives around 50 requests for help every week.

Join the Free Speech Union today. We are your best line of defence 👇

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

As expected, the #BurnhamBounce was a short lived dead cat bounce, with Reform back in the lead in today’s YouGov poll.

Labour will still lose the next election.

#CostOfLabour

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

@AvonandsomerRob Listed in AutoCar for a quick sale

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

@paullewismoney But yes, you are right, the greedy socialists are eyeing up taking 40% or more of the current DB surpluses in another tax raid

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

@paullewismoney Contribution holidays were one offs. Brown’s savage tax raid on dividends paid to pension schemes is an ongoing, multi decade drain on private pensions.

Come on, you are a financial journalist and must realise how ongoing trumps one off in this context.

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

Lawbreakers can be lawmakers

Lawbreakers can even stand in for our unelected PM and run the country

#CostOfLabour
#BananaRepublicBritain

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

So #AarAndy needs a holiday after only two weeks TikTok making, er, work.

Leaving the country in the hands of the convicted criminal and power behind the throne #LouiseHaigh

Welcome to Banana Republic Britain. If only the knitwear was as good as the clothes store…

#CostOfLabour

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

@katie_s_ashford @Miss_Snuffy Are heads really that craven? Granted Birbalsing is an outlier, but surely the sort of heads who believe in providing the discipline to enable kids to thrive have a bit more backbone than you fear?

[Thomas Pilchard @ThomasPilchard]

#RodLiddle is a tragic loss. Funny, acerbic, insightful. One of the very few people on the centre left with anything interesting to say or any originality. Shit taste in music, shit taste in politics (the SDP for god’s sake) and shit taste in food (see Come Dine With Me). RIP

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

RIP one of our best https://t.co/WlN0CSOARo