@mattsteer1 @bitcoinpanda69 What kind of evidence would convince you?
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Alan Goodman
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@GoodmanAlanplus @bitcoinpanda69 Does you linking these 2 links thinks it back up your case that we don’t have free speech? As it really doesn’t.
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@idealettuce @Sargon_of_Akkad The British constitutional theory is that parliament is sovereign, not the government.
But parliament is only sovereign over the people and is not the people, but chosen by the people.
The idea that government is the nation state is closer to "L'tetat c'est moi" of Louis XIV.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad The government is the nation state. Your American Zionist Slop has done more damage to your country than anything else. You’re a fraud and a grifter.
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Do you even hear yourself? If you don't want the government to take your money, you must leave the country. How is this taking care of the nation?
idealettuce@idealettuce
@sw4nlak3s @Sargon_of_Akkad It’s not theft. You are more than welcome to leave. You are a citizen and under the law as a citizen you have obligations and duties. People like you ruin everything that’s good.
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@bitcoinpanda69 what you see on here is a complete inversion of reality
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@bitcoinpanda69 If you’re being genuine, then no it’s nothing like that. We have the same free speech we always have, immigration is lower than it has been since 2021, but il agree cost of living is taking a toll since we left the EU.
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@hairygit I remember when the British were known for their empiricism and pragmatism.
Idealistic philosophy was for foreigners.
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Why do people say things like "We must interrogate the hegemonic narrative" when a simple "I'm a bit of an arse" would suffice?
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@InsideLucysHead The last time I heard a version of this joke was from a history lecturer and the final question was:
"Does the führer know?"
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So, it’s 1941 and a young German boy is listening to the radio. On the radio Hitler announces that Germany is declaring war on the United States...
The boy asks, “Father, where is the United States?”
“Here, let me show you,” His father responds and points at a map of North America.
The boy then asks, “We are at war with Russia too, right? Where’s that?”
The father then points at a map of the Soviet Union.
“I think we’re also at war with the British,” the boy says. “Where on the map are they?”
The father then points at the British isles and the numerous British colonies, dominions, and protectorates.
“And where are we, father?” The boy questions.
The father, starting to become annoyed by his son’s constant questioning, finds Central Europe and points out Germany.
The young boy processes what he has just been told for a moment.
“Father.”
“What now?” The father responds.
“I have one more question.”
“What is it?”
“Has Hitler seen this map?”
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@MurrayJohn2000 @docrussjackson The maximum sentence for a summary offence (magistrate and no choice of a jury) is reported as 6 months.
There are also either way offences where there is a choice of a jury or magistrate.
The Free Speech Union say that juries are less likely to convict for speech crimes.
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@GoodmanAlanplus @docrussjackson Currently offences attracting less than 12 months are heard at a magistrates court - no judge
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How many gullible ill-informed Americans are actually taken in by these two shameless liars?
RFK Jr: “People are going to jail for Twitter posts in England.”
Joe Rogan: “12,000 people in the last year.”
RFK: “It’s a dictatorship.”
Rogan “They got rid of trial by jury”
Their easily disprovable lies are both tragic and pathetic in equal measure.
FACT CHECK:
1. The best estimate for number of people actually jailed for Twitter posts is NOT 12,000, but up to 60 people.
Overall social media/online comms offences lead to ~100–200 jail terms annually and are focused on indecent/obscene messages (sexual content intended to distress or harass); image-based sexual abuse (including sexualised images of children); violent threats; menacing communications; targeted harassment; or incitement to racial/religious hatred and violence.
In a 2023 trial by jury in the US, American Douglass Mackey was convicted and sentenced to 7 months in federal prison for posting memes on Twitter. The conviction was overturned on appeal in July 2025.
2. The UK is not a dictatorship.
In recent major international rankings on democracy and democratic backsliding (2025–2026 data), the UK consistently ranks higher and shows less backsliding than the United States.
3. Britain has not ended trial by jury.
Jury trials have not been abolished or ended. There is a proposed scaling back being discussed, designed to deal with court backlogs, not the end of the jury system. Scotland and Northern Ireland are unaffected.
Even if the proposed changes are implemented, jury trials will remain the standard for the most serious offences in England and Wales (murder, rape, manslaughter, robbery, etc.), and they continue to operate as normal right now.
IF the changes go ahead, which would limit jury trials for many "either-way" offences likely to result in a sentence of under 3 years, they are not expected to take effect until 2028 at the earliest.
Taya Bass@travelingflying
RFK Jr: “People are going to jail for Twitter posts in England.” Joe Rogan: “12,000 people in the last year.” RFK Jr: “It’s a dictatorship.”
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Rather strange today at Heathrow: I went through one of the new scanners (not carrying my cello). As I emerged, the agent gave me a quizzical look. ‘It’s obvious you’re a musician,’ he said. Compliment or insult?
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@AdamKBostock @ProudofusUK Oxford Instruments built MRI (previously NMRI) scanners for a while.
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@ProudofusUK These inventor stories are great. Here's another to add to the list:
My physics tutor invented the MRI body scanner and was disappointed that we just gave it away.
The late Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, Nottingham University. Nobel Prize winner.
nottingham.ac.uk/research/group…
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🇬🇧 Every car on the road today rolls on what a Belfast vet invented for his 9 year old son.
In 1887, John Boyd Dunlop watched his son Johnnie come home from cycling with bruised wrists.
Belfast was cobblestones. The solid rubber wheels on Johnnie's tricycle jarred every bone in the boy's body.
His father refused to accept it.
Dunlop was 47. A Scottish veterinary surgeon who'd built his life in Belfast. He had never designed a wheel.
But he knew rubber. From horse harnesses. From surgical tubing.
He cut a strip of rubber sheet. Sealed it into a tube. Filled it with air.
Then he tested it.
He rolled two wooden discs down the garden path. One fitted with solid rubber. One with his new air-filled tube.
The solid rubber stopped first. The pneumatic kept rolling.
He fitted them to Johnnie's tricycle. The boy rode the cobbles without pain.
On 7 December 1888, Dunlop filed UK Patent 10607. The pneumatic tyre.
Then came the twist.
His patent did not hold. A Scottish engineer named Robert William Thomson had filed a pneumatic tyre patent in 1845. Over 40 years earlier.
But Thomson had never built one. Never sold one. Never proved it could work.
Dunlop's was the one the world used.
By 1889 a factory had opened in Dublin. Cyclists rode further. Then the motorcar came.
Every car. Every lorry. Every bus. Every bicycle on every road.
All rolling on what a Belfast vet invented for his son.
Dunlop sold the rights in 1896 for a modest sum. He never became rich from his name.
He had not made the wheel for himself. He had made it for a child.
He died on 23 October 1921. Aged 81.
He was Scottish. He lived in Belfast. He was British.
And he is one of many.
We built the modern world. Wheel by wheel. Engine by engine. From a father watching his son.
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Help us teach our children who created the modern world.🇬🇧 👇🙏
👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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@DagarothB @TheKanehB There were a couple of occasions when I was asked why I didn't react when paged.
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as someone that carried a pager for work until 2012, they absolutely did have dead zones. You just didnt notice because the towers kept retrying until the message was marked as received. I could retire if I had a dollar for every time a page came in late because I was in a no coverage area, or deep inside a building. We're talking HOURS sometimes
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@docrussjackson Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Here's an FSU interview with John McDonnell. Hardly a right wing figure.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkLa3…
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@GoodmanAlanplus Come on man. The Free Speech Union is a right-wing lobby group, founded by sick pervert Toby Young: it's not free, it's not a union, and it's extremely selective and highly partisan.
x.com/i/status/20124…
GET A GRIP@docrussjackson
🚨 Toby Young’s Free Speech Union doesn’t declare its donors, and has taken out a High Court injunction to stop the publication of a list of its donors obtained by hackers. The FSU has received almost £500,000 from Brexit politicians, #TuftonSt insiders, and US anti-abortionists. The FSU cares a lot about the funding of organisations it brands as ‘pro-censorship’. Last month, it announced the hiring of former Daily Mail journalist David Rose to investigate @hopenothate and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, yet it conceals its own backers and ignores inquiries. Despite supposedly championing transparency and free speech, the FSU works hard to hide its own influential right-wing and dark-money sources. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the-m…
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@petermorris1878 @docrussjackson @Beerdri01118796 How right wing is the retired firefighter and ex Labour councillor Robert Moss?
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@docrussjackson @Beerdri01118796 It’s always puzzled me why nobody ever seems to comment on the fact that all FSU members and its online fans are exclusively right wing. I mean, is being right wing a pre-requisite for championing free speech?
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🚨 Toby Young’s Free Speech Union doesn’t declare its donors, and has taken out a High Court injunction to stop the publication of a list of its donors obtained by hackers. The FSU has received almost £500,000 from Brexit politicians, #TuftonSt insiders, and US anti-abortionists.
The FSU cares a lot about the funding of organisations it brands as ‘pro-censorship’. Last month, it announced the hiring of former Daily Mail journalist David Rose to investigate @hopenothate and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, yet it conceals its own backers and ignores inquiries.
Despite supposedly championing transparency and free speech, the FSU works hard to hide its own influential right-wing and dark-money sources.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the-m…
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@carolgodsmark @docrussjackson @joerogan @RobertKennedyJr Being arrested and detained for hours or days is a loss of liberty, as are police bail conditions:
freespeechunion.org/archive/police…
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Ah, now for a bit of reality, @joerogan and @RobertKennedyJr.
The best estimate for number of people actually jailed for Twitter posts in the UK is NOT 12,000, but up to 60 people.
GET A GRIP@docrussjackson
How many gullible ill-informed Americans are actually taken in by these two shameless liars? RFK Jr: “People are going to jail for Twitter posts in England.” Joe Rogan: “12,000 people in the last year.” RFK: “It’s a dictatorship.” Rogan “They got rid of trial by jury” Their easily disprovable lies are both tragic and pathetic in equal measure. FACT CHECK: 1. The best estimate for number of people actually jailed for Twitter posts is NOT 12,000, but up to 60 people. Overall social media/online comms offences lead to ~100–200 jail terms annually and are focused on indecent/obscene messages (sexual content intended to distress or harass); image-based sexual abuse (including sexualised images of children); violent threats; menacing communications; targeted harassment; or incitement to racial/religious hatred and violence. In a 2023 trial by jury in the US, American Douglass Mackey was convicted and sentenced to 7 months in federal prison for posting memes on Twitter. The conviction was overturned on appeal in July 2025. 2. The UK is not a dictatorship. In recent major international rankings on democracy and democratic backsliding (2025–2026 data), the UK consistently ranks higher and shows less backsliding than the United States. 3. Britain has not ended trial by jury. Jury trials have not been abolished or ended. There is a proposed scaling back being discussed, designed to deal with court backlogs, not the end of the jury system. Scotland and Northern Ireland are unaffected. Even if the proposed changes are implemented, jury trials will remain the standard for the most serious offences in England and Wales (murder, rape, manslaughter, robbery, etc.), and they continue to operate as normal right now. IF the changes go ahead, which would limit jury trials for many "either-way" offences likely to result in a sentence of under 3 years, they are not expected to take effect until 2028 at the earliest.
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@sittingbourneTA @Saganismm I think the New Testament was largely Greek.
The Old Testament was largely Hebrew.
I'm certainly no expert. Inevitably there is online discussion.
There have bound to have been translations of translations in some cases...
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@Saganismm 🤣 Bible first written in Greek, later translated into Latin & stayed that way for centuries. Not translated into English until early 1600's on instructions of King James V1 of Scotland (1st of England). Translations done by multiple scholars & each put their own interpretation
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@esjesjesj Before 2006 we had a category of non-arrestable offences.
Now you can be arrested for anything, but the arrest must be 'necessary'.
How are these 12,000 arrests necessary?
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@HooleRob @esjesjesj Losing your liberty for hours or days after arrest is still being imprisoned.
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@esjesjesj Fewer than 200, not 12,000, are imprisoned annually in the UK for menacing or malicious social media activity.
By the by, what penalty do people consider appropriate for someone using social media to groom a young member of their family to send them explicit photos of themself?
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@InspM0r0s3 @Common_SensePod @esjesjesj Like the parents arrested for criticising their child's school?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@Common_SensePod @esjesjesj You dim cunt.
Those arrests were for Malicious Communications, which includes texts, phone calls, letters - and the legislation pre-dates social media … it’s used in cases where harassers abuse ex-partners & family members, and cranks abuse the phone system.
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@InspM0r0s3 @Common_SensePod @esjesjesj Like a retired fireman arrested for criticising his employer?
freespeechunion.org/archive/police…
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