Englishman, Writer, Lawyer, Cantab. Co-author of the @asi Freedom of Speech Bill (2026). Redrafting our constitution to fit our people, at: @ReinersProject.
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Britain is no free country.
Speech is routinely punished: criminally, financially, and otherwise. This is a result of existing law, which must go.
That is the purpose of The Freedom of Speech Act (2026).
@prestonjbyrne, @legalstyleblog, @ASI
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An investigation has been announced by the Home Secretary into the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak in Southampton.
Henry was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, who falsely claimed that Henry had racially abused him and that he had acted in self-defence.
The police bodycam footage shocked us all. As Henry lay dying on the floor, officers arrested him. When he told them he had been stabbed, one officer brushed his claim aside.
An accusation of racism should never be treated more seriously than someone telling an officer they have been stabbed.
No family should ever have to go through this.
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What’s the point of doing “proper activism” if it doesn’t work at best / is counterproductive at worst?
Building a .corp / federation / swarm of AI agent lawyers is potentially much more impactful than giving a milquetoast speech to normie civnats on a day
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89%: how much the basic state pension has risen since 2010, from £97.65 to £184.90 a week (DWP).
Prices rose 59% over the same period (ONS CPI).
That gap is the ratchet. Our Alternative Budget keeps pensions rising with prices, from April 2028, with no ratchet above them.
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Alfred the Great died on this day, 1127 years ago.
Alfred set the foundations of a united England and drove the invaders out, while all odds were against him. In doing so, he secured the existence of the Anglo-Saxon race.
It is an honour for all Englishman today to call this man not just a hero, but an ancestor. Hail Alfred!
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In 2010, Congress passed the SPEECH ACT, which protected Americans from foreign libel judgments that do not meet First Amendment's standards.
Now Congress is considering the GRANITE Act, which would extend those protections beyond just libel judgments.
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Autotrader is my number one procrastination destination at the moment. I've been saving up for a little while but I'm still undecided. What gets me is how much the tax system destroys wealth. There are some lovely cars in my modest price range that should be a good deal more expensive than they actually are, but the only reason they're next to worthless is because of how much the government charges you to drive them.
I could stretch to a lovely executive saloon (albeit twelve years old), but the government will charge me upward of £400 just to tax it. These are cars that could in theory go on for another ten years or more but will be on the scrapheap before the end of the decade.
Instead, I have to spend the same money on a Ford Focus with a weedy little turbocharged engine that probably won't do 80k miles - and the joke of it is, this is supposedly to save the planet. We all have to drive boring slow hatchbacks made out of blancmange because letting the plebs have nice things is too much like freedom.
Time to post my biannual “how artificially compressed are British wages”.
Rising minimum wage and a 50k+ p/a tax bracket that runs to 40% of earnings, and hasn’t adjusted for inflation. This form of artificial wage compression has turned everyone in Britain into low productivity tax cattle - you have zero incentive to become anything other here.
This is also a form of ambition and productivity compression.
Source, ONS, Fig 5: ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo…
Couple that with the various layers of censorship which exclude people from public life, and oftentimes work entirely, for addressing the necessary issues, and you will start to understand what is occurring in Britain's malaise.
A summary of that, here:
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Britain’s speech landscape has a few circles of hell that are worth note; Dante Alighieri would have blushed. It is abundantly clear why someone would operate pseudonymously in a country that is a complete stranger to the Freedom of Speech, I outline those circles of speech-hell here:
1) The Criminal law:
Our most famous, is the realm of Criminal speech – here lies the Public Order Act (s.4 onward), Communications Act & OSA offences. It carries penalties ranging from depravation of liberty (as with Connolly, Wayne O’Roarke, G Linehan), to life altering fines. It is frequently exploited by activists.
2) Regulatory & Employment law:
Below it lies the lesser known realm of professional regulation, with around 60 regulated professions - regulators hungrily venture into the private lives and out-of-work speech of professionals, looking to leverage the middle class into silence. For those not in a profession, your HR department functions as a micro-regulator - the tribunals will agree with them, and the FSU will often not touch anything besides an easy win (in terms of PR and law). The state of the law is not kind to their mission - given our lack of meaningful legislative protection - your speech is not protected. This eye of Sauron covers everything from MPs to unskilled care workers - our entire institutional landscape. A calculated political foe can use this against you to inconvenience your professional life and means of generating a living – the protocol of professional regulation, and the employment tribunal, will likely even thank them.
3) The final layer of this inferno; smear, calculated ostracism (defamation) and loss of opportunity. Often called cancel culture - but it is worse than that. Here lies the realm of betrayal and exploitation of the British convention of squeamishness toward any deviation from the mean. It includes, doxxing & outsourcing of harm to the mob. It is the special-interest activity of plainly partisan NGOs such as Hope Not Hate & professional activists, typically with nothing to lose themselves. It sits outside of most legal remedy available to the Englishman (defamation suits can run to 6 figures with ease in complex instances, and the Englishman is categorically a poor man now).
This is why only those with tepid beliefs are able to speak without consequence, and, are invited into the limelight. The demons who who exploit this legal framework to dispose of the courageous, and exploit the natural squeamishness of the British public in doing so, would gladly kill you if they could do so and get away with it.
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The British state has functionally outlawed being an Englishman in public, framed as combatting anti social behaviour. Ironically, it almost guarantees a further withdrawal from social behaviour.
I note that there are no defences of:
-joie de vivre
-savoir faire
As such, we might now expect rehabilitative orders and sentences of up to 2 years for being outdoors, pint in hand, and attempting to have a chat with a stranger (being an Englishman).
You can all but guarantee these powers will be abused. On 4th October 2026 we saw abuse of similar in Gosport; Section 34 dispersal orders (created by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014) gives the police and PCSOs the power to direct individuals to leave a designated area for up to 48 hours – designed for vagrants, rough sleepers and drunks/crackheads in public spaces. In Gosport, those powers were applied to the entirety of the area (population 82,000). Essentially giving police the power to move an entire town along, from their own residences.
We haven’t seen such an abuse of legislation beyond its intended purpose since the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 – designed to contain remote airport and hospital disease outbreaks – was used to place the entirety of Britain under house arrest (lockdown, of 2020).
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To keep track of the U.S. policy organizations endorsing or supporting the GRANITE Act foreign censorship shield law, I'm going to start tracking them on this handy webpage.
Who's next...?
prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/26/…
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A thoughtful and judicious corrective to the Islamo-monomania that dominates centre-right debate on immigration.
🚨NEW: Islam has become an increasingly fashionable target for many on the right. But does the focus on religion distract from broader concerns? And what risks might such a distraction pose?
✍️: @HeracleanVision
📖 : pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/islam…
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The British state have been floundering in comical and dizzying ways to square the “face coverings” circle for years, and will continue doing so until morale improves.
Section 158 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 has been authorised for today’s events in the area as designated by the map below.
Police can require removal of a face covering if they reasonably believe that the person is wearing it wholly or mainly for the purpose of concealing identity. The face covering can also be seized.
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What a difference a year makes!
prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/…
The US messageboard, 4chan, is openly defying British regulators and refusing to comply with the Online Safety Act.
Read more as @paticlarke investigates:
bit.ly/4hpRHd8
The British state have been floundering in comical and dizzying ways to square the “face coverings” circle for years, and will continue doing so until morale improves.
Section 158 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 has been authorised for today’s events in the area as designated by the map below.
Police can require removal of a face covering if they reasonably believe that the person is wearing it wholly or mainly for the purpose of concealing identity. The face covering can also be seized.
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This is a refreshingly novel, almost heretical, approach to defence policy where the author thinks first about what needs defending before dreaming up battle formations.
I'm very pleased to share my @Prosperity_Inst paper, ‘Reclaiming the Waves’ in which I argue that the @DefenceHQ should adopt a credible naval-centred strategy to defend & advance UK national interests & deter adversary aggression from the maritime domain.
prosperity.com/media-publica…
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The 4Chan case demonstrates that all it requires is for one nation to robustly protect the freedom to speak; in this case the US. That is what is required for the internet to persist, and remain accessible by VPN to the rest of the world.
Domestic regulators such as Britain’s Ofcom, who have aspirations of destroying the internet, its contents and shooting their own population in the foot, are powerless to stop this.
We will see precisely the same overreach we saw here in the realm of AI – I would not be surprised if legislation was tabled to provide Ofcom specific powers in this realm before Burnham leaves office.
Enclosed, a House of Commons library research briefing from 2 weeks ago, contemplating precisely that fate, and stating it has been the plan since the Sunak government for the super-regulator to eventually take on this task: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
"The 4chan case has become the clearest test of how far a UK regulator can reach across borders."
tl;dr the UK wrote a law aimed at American companies, but didn't bother to look up American law.
The UK's threats targeting Americans continue.
gadgetreview.com/ofcoms-war-…
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They did the “largely peaceful” thing 😂
Clashes erupt in Paris after largely peaceful protests across France bbc.in/4jyPz62
