Exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook

It’s been my pleasure to act for fearless free speech fighter ⁦@pleepolitics⁩ & to secure this groundbreaking judgment: Criticism of Islam is a protected belief, judge rules. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/0…

"After 7 years with an unblemished record as an Acute Medicine Nursing Assistant at Pilgrim Hospital, I was dismissed for reposting a government screenshot on illegal immigration—on my PRIVATE, restricted social media account. No patient complaints. No impact on my work. Just a lawful opinion in my own time. Now fighting for unfair dismissal & discrimination. This isn't just about me—it's about every NHS worker's right to private political views without losing their livelihood. First hearing cost £15k. 5-day trial in 2027 could hit £50k. I can't do this alone. Stand with me for truth, justice, fairness & free speech. Every donation helps change this for all public sector workers. Donate & share: [link to your fundraiser, e.g. givesendgo.com/standwithamy or fightforamy.com Thank you ❤️🇬🇧 #StandWithAmy #FreeSpeech #NHS #Justice"

“Christianity holds a different place to other religions in Britain. It is the foundation of our way of life, expressed in laws & norms & our institutional, intellectual & cultural inheritance.” ⁦@NJ_Timothy⁩ makes the key point on Islamic prayers. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/1…

@barstandards @DrProudman Excellent update from @JoshuaRozenberg which surely shows that the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office was wrong not to investigate the complaint made on behalf of Dr Proudman re a judge’s comments on Twitter. open.substack.com/pub/rozenberg/… @Fox_Claire @TonyDowson5 @BrynHarris6

@barstandards @DrProudman x.com/right2equality…

Judge Daniel Sawyer, who sits in Portsmouth, stood accused of breaching judicial guidance on social media & abusing his position by targeting Charlotte Proudman on X. He’s a woke coward who also tried anonymously to expel me from the Bar (see next post). thetimes.com/article/68b6c2…

You’ve got to hand it to @guardian. This article manages to portray something as trivial as the opening of a Gail’s in north London as a microcosm of the newspaper’s warped view of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It’s little more than repackaged Soviet antisemitism, where rapacious, capitalist, colonialist Jews are quietly victimising innocent, charitable Arabs who, the article ludicrously implies, are somehow indigenous to Archway. This is The Guardian opinion page in its comfort zone: quietly and subtly encouraging anti-Israeli sentiment among its readers. But the newspaper has been found out, and social media users are having none of it.

@TonyDowson5 @ShipleyWrites IMO judges, part or full time, shouldn’t be criticising barristers in public (ie on X). Moreover, he did it in a contemptuously dismissive way & from behind a cowardly cloak of anonymity. @dshensmith

This is completely fatuous. Man who is now a full time judge having previously been part time criticised the odious Proudman ... and that is relevant to judge alone trials??? Just absurd nonsense.

@FaringForwards @BarristerSecret Daniel Sawyer was a part-time judge at the time of his Proudman tweets (see Times) & hence he shouldn’t have been criticising a barrister in public (ie X). There are no “professional constraints” that are obviated by anonymity, a cloak that is often used by cowards. @Fox_Claire

Replies of course turned off. - He wasn’t a judge at the time - He wrote an entirely responsible blog, anonymous only because of professional constraints, rather like @BarristerSecret - His identity was barely concealed not least given recondite hobbies he constantly referenced - Hs rightly criticised Proudman who, not for the first time or anything like it, made tendentious and irresponsible claims about a subject she knew little about (criminal trials) - To suggest this was harassment or misogynistic is not merely absurd but defamatory - Indeed, it deprives those terms of real meaning. Which you wouldn’t think Proudman would support. - I’m afraid Proudman looks ever more like a bad faith actor who despite her commitment to helping the disempowered is also committed to chasing publicity and building a sort of sub-Maugham brand: Dr Pepper to his Kool Aid. - She should stick to charging £20,000 for her skeleton arguments. I’m sure they are as brilliant as they are reliable.

@GarethDavies007 @barstandards @DrProudman @pleepolitics @ACCANews You’re spot on Gareth, as I explained here: thecritic.co.uk/bar-none/

@JonHolb @barstandards @DrProudman Is it possible the woke March thru the institutions included professional bodies @pleepolitics will tell you about his problems with Actuaries I think @ACCANews should ban Mothin Ali but they do not Perhaps look at the DEI hires in professions Minorities are over represented

Labour knows national cohesion is collapsing, but it’s chosen cowardice ⁦@DavidGHFrost⁩ is spot on with his prescriptions such as: • net negative immigration • leaving the ECHR • compulsory use of English by public authorities • burka bans telegraph.co.uk/gift/4c3e9f1a3…

Please support the ⁦@SpeechUnion⁩ legal challenge 2 “anti-Muslim hostility” proposals. The gov’s decision 2bring in a backdoor blasphemy law will silence criticism of Islam & may b unlawful. Judicial reviews r expensive - but in this case necessary freespeechunion.org/islamophobia-f…

Although the defendants failed in their legal challenge to Terrorism Act charges (support for Hamas) the principles outlined by Sup Ct are supportive of free speech. @SpeechUnion jewishnews.co.uk/supreme-court-…

V. important Sup Ct decision on free speech: “Esp in relation to political matters or qns of public interest, members of the public should not be discouraged from [speaking] by laws which are vague or which they cannot be expected to understand.” Para 93 bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/…

Excellent interview in which JH distinguishes btwn: • formal definition, with the need for there 2b a intention to encourage hatred against Muslims & • practical implementation, where anti-Muslim intent will simply be inferred to silence those raising legitimate issues.

Well done @danneidle on striking a blow for 3speech It wasn’t just wealth that enabled Dan 2fight & win - he also had courage & strength of conviction What he says about libel law being used to intimidate most folk is true, but applies generally in litigation &needs addressing

Amid the hysteria of the BLM Terror, I was offered an exciting opportunity by Sky News to participate in an unconscious bias course to root-out my white privilege. I say "offered", which suggests it was optional, which it wasn't. The course was, of course, meretricious, grifting bunk. "Diversity", for much of the MSM, is increasingly a fig-leaf for group-think, activism and grievance mongering. Hilariously, so many of the people who work in our legacy media think of themselves as being part of the counter-culture. In reality they are Establishment stooges and a grudging block on true cognitive diversity.

But, as we know, they are activists posing as international lawyers.

Starmer, Hermer & Putin must have read the same law books.