Funny. I would have expected the "Free Speech Union" and the other self-proclaimed defenders of free expression to be all over this. But 🦗🦗🦗 How strange. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...
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Toby Young only represents nazis and pedos.
jul 6, 2025, 9:13 am • 4 0 • view
Just says it all, doesn't it. Truly predictable. What has this world turned into.
jul 6, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
If Jesus was alive today he would be standing shoulder to shoulder with the Reverend Sue. What an enlightened and awe inspiring person she is. We are all Palestine Action.
jul 6, 2025, 7:33 am • 17 2 • view
Well that’s the ‘for me but not for thee’ effect isn’t it?
jul 6, 2025, 7:17 am • 6 0 • view
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP
jul 6, 2025, 8:15 am • 0 0 • view
Sometimes the silence is deafening.
jul 6, 2025, 7:20 am • 5 1 • view
We’ve been downgraded: thecritic.co.uk/the-uk-is-no...
jul 6, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The "Free Speech Union" isn't about "Free Speech" at all, it's just a convenient title to disguise what/who they actually are. They're just a front for anti-communism and nothing more, that's the same bunch who once equated wearing a face mask to communism and/or slavery, they're a peculiar lot.
jul 6, 2025, 8:13 am • 1 0 • view
They're political hustlers, wouldn't expect nothing from those cherrypicking-guffmongers. littlesis.org/org/415326-F...
jul 6, 2025, 8:14 am • 2 0 • view
Ofcourse, the anti-communism is the chief point, If it was that they thought all talking points require equal weight, they'd be the first out of the blocks, but they are innately biased and actively try to undermine the left's arguments, while promoting the right-wing's arguments. Trump lackeys....
jul 6, 2025, 8:21 am • 1 0 • view
If I was a cynic, which I'm obviously not, I might think it was because they're only interested in being able to spout their bigotry with impunity.
jul 6, 2025, 7:24 am • 5 0 • view
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - have you lost your senses? You're siding with the corrupt, genocidal Netanyahu who, let's remember, promoted Hamas over the Palestinian Authority.
jul 6, 2025, 7:36 am • 10 0 • view
"This blessed Isle..." 😑
jul 6, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I've no love for them, but did spot this by Kenan Malik in The Observer (about Bob Vylan but anyway...)
jul 6, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
As optics go, for this, or indeed any government, it looks spectacularly bad.
jul 6, 2025, 7:15 am • 12 0 • view
They only give a damn about free speech when they want to say crazy and offensive things. If they disagree with the speech, they vehemently refuse to protect it, going so far as condemning it and celebrating the suppression of it. Pure hypocrisy every time.
jul 6, 2025, 7:15 am • 17 1 • view
Complicity.
jul 7, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
When a black man calls for death to the IDF on a Glastonbury stage it's incitement, the Chief Rabbi accusses the BBC of spreading "vile Jew hate" and Lisa Nandy at last finds something to do with her time. White right-winger calls for mass killing at Glastonbury... "satire". So that's ok then 👍
jul 6, 2025, 7:42 am • 32 8 • view
It’s all about context. Maybe Liddle will pop up on BBCQT AGAIN next week and get a chance to explain what he really meant? Be nice to have Rod Stewart alongside Froggie for a change to add a bit of diversity. Did I say diversity? No not diversity. Not that. What’s the word I’m looking for?
jul 6, 2025, 9:18 am • 11 0 • view
The spectator and all it's owners and 'journalists' as well as financial backers and those who use their propaganda on their media outlets should be proscribed as terrorists. Where is @UKLabour now???
jul 6, 2025, 9:36 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, please. Rod Liddle clearly isn't a violent threat to anyone. Well, other than his pregnant ex-partner, whom he assaulted. But, apart from that...
jul 6, 2025, 7:59 am • 9 0 • view
Wtf? 🤢
jul 6, 2025, 8:23 am • 2 0 • view
Why would you expect that? Free speech absolutism has always been about some people demanding the 'right' to speak without being spoken back to.
jul 6, 2025, 9:51 am • 1 0 • view
Fascists!
jul 6, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view
I've been waiting for Toby Young to express his outrage publicly without prompting, as he's done numerous times in the past. I fear I wait in vain for some indication he's not a hypocrite that's full of 💩.
jul 6, 2025, 7:49 am • 7 0 • view
Yes. Free speech is for people saying "trans women are men", or "tax cuts raise money by growing the economy", not for people saying "genocide is bad".
jul 6, 2025, 7:21 am • 52 3 • view
Arresting an 83 year old priest is not a policing priority it's a political priority. Just like the last minute banning of a Palestine Action protest from Parliament Square wasn't a policing decision it was a political decision. It would be nice to see Met do more policing, and less politics.
jul 6, 2025, 10:06 pm • 2 0 • view
You wonder if even the police are trolling Starmer by arresting an 83 year old priest, who looks like she could be anybody's sweet loving grandma, for the crime of peacefully opposing a genocide
jul 6, 2025, 10:57 am • 0 0 • view
for dogs sake man she's armed with a stick!!!!!!!! look at her!!! you can tell she's a wrong 'un... i just hope the bobbies who are nicking her are OK and uninjured!
jul 6, 2025, 7:58 am • 4 0 • view
Palestine Action caused over £7m worth of damage in their latest attack on the RAF. You can support freedom for Palestine without backing a terrorist organisation.
jul 6, 2025, 10:47 am • 3 0 • view
Who was injured, feared for their life or died? How much did it cost to clear up after the riots last year? Planes do not feel terror and causing an expensive repair inconvenience does NOT compare legally with bombing an airport or arena.
jul 6, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
Confusing terrorism with criminal damage...does not do the law any favours!
jul 6, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
jul 6, 2025, 12:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Criminal damage and terrorism are very different things. You DO know this 🤦🏻♀️
jul 6, 2025, 11:26 am • 8 0 • view
It’s different if an organisation advocates criminal damage.
jul 6, 2025, 11:44 am • 1 0 • view
If you are referring to ‘Palestine Action’ they advocate ‘direct action’.
jul 6, 2025, 12:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Direct action could mean protest. More evidence I would think is needed.
jul 6, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Well quite, that’s why the ‘terrorism’ tag is just plain wrong.
jul 6, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Strikes, boycotts and sit-ins are ‘direct action’. Please look up the term ‘slippery slope’.
jul 6, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I wouldn’t call that terrorism.
jul 6, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. They oppose Israel’s annihilation of Gaza etc and Keir is a Zionist. That’s the crux of it. It’s shameful. 🤬
jul 6, 2025, 12:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, got the story.
jul 6, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s Christian?
jul 6, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
His wife and kids are Jewish, him I don’t know. I’m not conflating Jew and Zionist here, just going on his speeches and actions. He supports Netanyahu and Israel, and Labour (eventually) kicked Corbyn and many Jewish people out, when they protested at the IHRA definition of anti-semitism.
jul 6, 2025, 12:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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jul 6, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
They only like the kind of free speech that allows them to gratuitously offend - or worse - their political opponents.
jul 6, 2025, 7:30 am • 11 0 • view
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social the hypocrisy breaks me
jul 6, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn't Toby Young out marching in her defence? No, I've just checked, and you're right. Not a sausage from that normally shouty group is saying a thing. Weird.
jul 6, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
So err? There’s zero evidence #PalistineAction has perpetrated any illegal activity and yet a court finds them guilty? Advocating a shut down is not illegal activity it’s just free speech opinion.
jul 6, 2025, 11:42 am • 0 0 • view
Seems like the whole world, well at least those who have been in close contact, are affected by Trump stupidity.
jul 6, 2025, 10:12 am • 1 0 • view
I’ve been wondering why this is given so little publicity, is it the Trump effect?
jul 6, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not strange. It's basic facism.
jul 6, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
She should record a track with Bob Vylan and Kneecap just to really upset them. Call it “Lord To Be Young is Stupid.”
jul 6, 2025, 7:18 am • 7 0 • view
(Please read the title out-loud folks before replying)
jul 6, 2025, 7:19 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 6, 2025, 9:13 am • 5 0 • view
Come on JD and Elon; Great champions of free speech in Europe.
jul 6, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Free speech means 'mine, not yours'. Hey at least it wasn't I.C.E. Yet.
jul 6, 2025, 7:15 am • 4 0 • view
Cops are class traitors.
jul 6, 2025, 7:23 am • 4 0 • view
Some priests are more dangerous than others.
jul 6, 2025, 9:01 am • 4 0 • view
It’s bullying. An elderly lady is an easy target for the bullies.
jul 6, 2025, 9:44 am • 0 0 • view
There isn't a centrist or right wing 'free speech defender' who isn't just miffed that they can't say slurs.
jul 6, 2025, 7:20 am • 10 1 • view
I worry, about the limits that are being placed on free speech, around the world. However, I am glad the police do not cover their faces and seem to act with some degree of compassion, unlike the ice agents. Let us hope we do not follow America in their rush to authoritarianism.
jul 6, 2025, 7:23 am • 3 0 • view
Bloody insanity everywhere, I feel like we’re in some global black mirror alternate reality, I really want the episode to end
jul 6, 2025, 7:21 am • 36 1 • view
It's a bit of a Lady Killers moment
jul 6, 2025, 7:23 am • 2 0 • view