Senior Research Fellow, Freedom & Sovereignty Initiative Europe.
London,
Joined February 2007
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Really good common sense!!
"They need adults to say 'no that isn't true' and everything about this bill means that would no longer be possible"
Lucy Beney of @ThoughtfulTs W/@janmacvarish of the @SpeechUnion @ #BattleFest 2026 "Conversion Practices Bill: Criminalising parents, teachers and priests?"
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Excellent!
Our @MaximumCities kicks off Battle of Ideas Helsinki
“We need to all be free to express opinions not everybody agrees with… This is an invitation to ask difficult questions rather than to be preached to from the stage”
@Suomalaisuus
Spot on!
You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
Excellent, shows that reviving Britain’s economy is beyond the managerial mindset that has dominated Westminster since the late 1980s. This managerial approach shies away from fixing problems and instead tries to keep them in check. We are in serious dudu.
When the nation is on the precipice, doing nothing is not the same as ‘doing no harm’.
spiked-online.com/2026/10/29…
I really enjoyed this debate.
BREXIT is back!
Get ahead of Burnham’s government by watching “Don’t look back! Escaping the EU’s economic doom loop” @ #BattleFest 2026 in partnership with @GBBC_UK
W/ @CeeMacBee, @DavidGHFrost, @AliMirajUK, @TerraOrBust & @Norm_Lewis
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=asbD0g…
Norman Lewis retweeted
Scanning the messages of every citizen might be the definition of a police state. But that is exactly what the EU wants to do under its proposed ‘Chat Control 2.0’ bill. This is a brazen attack on free speech and privacy, says Adina Portaru
buff.ly/0qGm9Jz
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A German NGO Flagged Romanian Content During Romania’s Elections
Democracy Reporting International took part in the Rapid Response System in Romania. Flags and flaggers remain secret. DRI says it didn’t flag journalists in 2025. So who did?
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Excerpt: "Democracy Reporting International, a German NGO that has received funding from the EU, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Department of State, has flagged Romanian content during Romania’s elections.
Did Democracy Reporting International flag journalists?
According to them, no — but that’s just what they told me. At some point, only discovery through judicial proceedings will settle the question. Unless the Commission and the Irish Digital Services Coordinator decide it’s time to enforce the DSA and provide the full transparency we need regarding flagging. My Article 53 complaint is on their desks.
As you know if you follow my reporting, in Romania, my X account was suspended, the Facebook page of the Romanian edition of Le Monde diplomatique was suspended for two years and reinstated without explanation, and some TikTok content from the Romanian edition of Le Monde diplomatique has been completely shadow-banned.
Platforms have also suspended accounts and content, and demoted people and outlets such as Ion Cristoiu, Robert Turcescu, Marius Tucă, Victor Roncea, Active News, Vlad Mercori, Andrei Murgescu and Laurențiu Țîrcă. These are only the cases around the 2025 RRS activation — and nobody can tell us whether the moderation was “RRS-related” or not."
Full article: francezul.substack.com/p/a-g…
cc: @DemocracyR @EDMO_EUI @eurofactcheck @EU_Commission @CNaM_ie @ANCOM_RO
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On the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, our Freedom Breakfast celebrated the great courage of those who stood for national independence and political freedom.
Thanks to our speakers @Furedibyte @DariaMalecpl and Márton Veisz of our hosts @CivicHungaryFdn
Excellent! When revolt had a civilisational purpose
Today it costs little to speak out.
But the Hungarian heroes of 1956, inspired by Polish heroes of Poznań 1956, risked it all.
@DariaMalecpl reflected that courage is built on the idea that a struggle will have an outcome not just for ourselves but for future generations.
You’re free to hug your granny in Israel.
Has Ireland reached peak woke?
Your granny’s hug is now a consent issue.
That was the message of a Department of Justice-funded NGO ad in Ireland, until the minister had to pull it.
A state that funds this has stopped trusting its own families.
thejournal.ie/grandparents-h…
For centuries, the dodo has been Exhibit A in the prosecution of mankind. Now human ingenuity is challenging the apparent finality of its extinction, exposing the poverty of an environmental imagination that can picture us destroying the world but never repairing it. Perhaps ‘dead as a dodo’ will yet become the epitaph for environmental misanthropy itself.
Extinction Isn’t What It Used to Be normanlewis.substack.com/p/e…
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In the news, our launch was covered by the Financial Times
ft.com/content/1cda1563-9f99…
Brilliant @RichardJSchenk
Political elites across Europe, and especially those in Brussels, are scared of elections.
The same logic is at play in Romania. The political situation demands snap elections - but the elites are running scared.
Our @RichardJSchenk at the European Parliament for @ecrgroup
Spot on! @RichardJSchenk and @FSI_Europe
Why are Romanian elites running scared of snap elections?
Because they know that this time, they can't repeat the "trick" of simply cancelling them if they don't get the right result.
Our @RichardJSchenk at the European Parliament for the @ecrgroup event.
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This weekend, the UK's most important political festival kicks off.
#BattleFest from @acadofideas is tackling all the big issues for British and European politics.
Catch FSI Europe speaking on a range of big panels. See you there!
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The NGO industry, funded by Brussels, serves to provide a veneer of authority to the EU’s actions.
By creating a fake version of civil society, Brussels can pretend it is merely responding to “the people”.
@Furedibyte in the European Parliament
Can’t wait to share my views on this critical topic.
Andy Burnham's going to new lengths to justify running back to the EU...
Making this #BattleFest session - "DON'T LOOK BACK! ESCAPING THE EU'S ECONOMIC DOOM LOOP" W/ @GBBC_UK - vital viewing.
W/ @DavidGHFrost, @Norm_Lewis, @CeeMacBee, @AliMirajUK & @TerraOrBust
DETAILS - battleofideas.org.uk/session…
TICKETS - battleofideas.org.uk/battle-…
