Starmer was dangerous on fundamental liberties because he could recite the precise sections of legislation, which when deployed to their "full force", can suppress them entirely. Burnham is dangerous because he does not, but intends to continue with that programme whilst roleplaying as the 6th member of Oasis. Until the legislative tools of British censorship are repealed, censorship will continue. That situation will persist under a Conservative, Reform, Green or Restore government who do not enact a Freedom of Speech Bill containing the necessary repeals, and ideally, a positive right to contend with regulators and employers. Here is one @prestonjbyrne, @legalstyleblog & I made earlier: adamsmith.org/research/the-f…

Two words; Human Resources Our most censorious (and indeed, censorial) are responsible for hiring & firing. Britain is tied with the Netherlands for having the largest HR sectors in the world relative to the size of its workforce.

On Northern Town Halls, and Englishness in Architecture: Bradford's town hall (by architects Lockwood and Mawson, 1869, image 1), built in the renaissance/Italianate style, was a civic symptom of Bradford's booming mechanised worsted spinning industry. The bell tower is a deliberate reproduction of the Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze. The fact it still stands, given the rot of modern Bradford, is a marvel to the staying power of England's architecture. Architectural walking tours of these places will someday be the only service not outsourced to American AI. The North – when doing town halls –is particularly good at capturing a blend of Italianate, gothic and domestic English Vernacular palatial building. In the warmer stones of dear England. Image 2: Alfred Waterhouse's Manchester Town Hall, is another of these blends. Part resembling a Tudor Richmond Palace, half St Mark's in Venice. Multi-storeyed oriel windows of a Tudor mansion sit beside beside Italianate early gothic arches. Image 3: Chester Town Hall, by William Henry Lynn, an Irishman who won the commission in 1864. This follows a similar approach, but more in the spirit of the guildhalls of the low countries in terms of its plan – Londoners passing through might see some similarities with the Natural History Museum's two-tone Italianate masonry. Image 4: Halifax Town Hall – By Charles Barry & Co (completed in 1863) is something of an oddity insofar as it is executed in the sort of classical-by-way-of Sabastiano Serlio style, and in warm Ringby Sandstone, from nearby Swales Moor. Those familiar with the Tudor Burleigh house will recognise some features of its clocktower. We can, and shall, build these imitation wonders again. And always keep in mind, that they were imitations of greater civilisations even at the time. Many of these Northern town halls have an aura of Pugin's parliament about them – consciously in the natively English perpendicular Gothic style. Now, we have ourselves to imitate once again.

If wouldn’t have happened if the Freedom of Speech Bill (2026) were law. Doorstep interactions like this are symptom of the total uncertainty both the public and authorities have over where “lawful speech” ends and begins in Britain, thanks to its confused array of differing thresholds and legislation. At present 1.2 million ‘recorded incidents’ involving speech are noted by police each year, inclusive of arrests and convictions. 1 in 50 people have experienced this, or worse. The manufacture of ‘Incidents’ like this will continue (and increase) indefinitely without widespread repeals listed below (from the Freedom of Speech Bill which we wrote, and released via @ASI). Until then, police (and. other free-to-use complaint based services, like professional regulators) will continue to be deployed as enforcers to inconvenience political and personal enemies over speech online which ought be untouchable. The complainants, and authorities, need to be de-fanged entirely. Some of those seeing this interaction with @oldspeak_books have mentioned Non Crime Hate Incidents (NCHIs); these were officially scrapped the day we released the model Freedom of Speech Bill (2026) incidentally – that was the official story, naturally they have simply persisted under another name, and home visits by police remain a routine intimidation tactic in which access beyond PACE powers, confessions, and general abuse of their position of trust is attempted by police. Never let them into your property under any circumstances when one of these fishing exercises occurs, and yes, do film the interaction in full. A guide on that in @ReinersProject, here: reiners.org.uk/knock-knock-w… Until we see the repeals listed below, the Englishman’s uncertainty on what he may say will be constantly leveraged against him.

More on that in @ReinersProject, as ever: reiners.org.uk/nothing-works…

Earning 41k in a public sector role which requires no prior training (not even a requirement to become registered nurse) Somehow paying subsidised rent, so low it appears to be from the 1990s (Please refer to the ONS wage compression chart on the right)

Britain has become so demographically altered that it is having the sub vs dub anime debate about English-speaking programming. Cc @ChibiReviews

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…

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).

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 Oblivion Act: A wide ‘Great Repeal Act’ It is a draft bill to force the permanant state to justify the laws it actually uses, and disposes en masse of the rest. A 'wide' approach to a 'Great Repeal Act', in which Parliament merely saves what law remains necessary, useful, and in the national interest. In @ReinersProject: reiners.org.uk/the-oblivion-…

Of course, in 2020, this would have been deemed an unlawful use of the 1984 act had the law not been changed before @SimonDolan’s judicial review of the lockdown methodology reached the court of appeal (it was ruled academic). The same quite plainly applies here, but the British state know it will not be challenged by a soul in Gosport, on the dissident right, or in any party interested in these causes. More on the 2020 situation, Dolan case, and conclusions to be drawn from it and learned from it, here, in @ReinersProject: reiners.org.uk/hra-fitness-f…

Sovereign AI is an existential requirement

Never relent, always persist under your own steam. Thank you for your service Mr Niemietz. (An essential follow to those who do not @K_Niemietz).

Fantastic debate on the necessity of a US-style Freedom of Speech Bill at @acadofideas’ Battle Of Ideas this morning. Motion carried! With a wide range of topics and speakers, #Battlefest is truly Britain’s marketplace of ideas. You can find the model bill I co-authored with @prestonjbyrne & @legalstyleblog here: adamsmith.org/research/the-f…

We’re getting flying cars and mars colonies before Britain adopts adequate protections for its population’s freedom to speak. Such protections would finally prevent the state from criminalising you, or regulating you into destitution, for mere words - political, online, ‘grossly offensive’, or otherwise. If you were curious about what a Freedom of Speech Bill might look like, @prestonjbyrne, @legalstyleblog & I wrote the model bill in April, here: adamsmith.org/research/the-f… I’ll be explaining why it is necessary, and defending its contents, at @acadofideas’s Battle of Ideas debate tomorrow at noon.

Last day for bookings tomorrow! Those already attending @acadofideas' Battle of Ideas Festival are encouraged to come along to my session on why Britain needs a US-Style Free Speech Bill: battleofideas.org.uk/session… From, 12:15-13:30, Church House, Westminster. Looking forward to a robust debate on the subject!

Another terrible week for The Freedom of Speech in Britain. Passing The Freedom of Speech Bill (2026) appears to be the only proportionate solution offered thus far This week; Robert Jenrick (@RobertJenrick) & John Cleese (@JohnCleese) were referred to prevent – Britain's anti-terror watchdog – and @oldspeak_books being visited by police in a textbook fishing exercise over online speech. This clip, from my discussion with the inimitable @NickDixon is of renewed relevance, full video here: youtu.be/1m_wp7YdmMY?si=m2O2…