Ah, ‘fweedom,’ as a once-upon-a-time future Vice-President supposedly breathed to her mother from her baby stroller.
It’s a fuzzy concept to many in the world from birth, having never known what it is.
But to those steeped in its mythos, aware of freedom’s power and the natural rights of man accorded with it, when it starts to disappear – be it slowly chipped away or chiseled off in sudden chunks – you notice.
In the United States, it’s more a gradual cycle of tiny nips and cuts at the fabric of freedoms here, under various excuses. ‘For the children‘ is a time-honored shibboleth, as is ‘if just one life is saved,’ another. Purposeful mendacities gain the status of unassailable canon – ‘You can’t shout fire‘ – and convenient modern-day rationalizations are applied to inconvenient Constitutional restrictions in order to circumvent them – ‘There were no semi-automatic weapons when the Second Amendment was written.’
[INSERT: smug prog gotcha smile]
Out of politeness, decency, and a sense of communal concern for solving whatever the situation at hand, much as our collective response to the rumored and unknown COVID threat had been, Americans immediately turn to face a common enemy with a good-natured and determined sense of purpose.
It’s only when those in power start overstepping the extra bounds we have graciously allowed them, start exercising controls beyond what is rationally necessary, and start picking and choosing favorites as a disaster unfolds on any scale do Americans stop, assess the situation, and make a course correction that they will no longer accept this tripping into tyranny.
The Founders gave us the mechanism to extract ourselves without violence or revolution, and, as last November 5th proved, when we have had enough, we will rise united in every corner of this land to throw the yoke of authoritarians from our shoulders.
Citizens then return to the business of righting our American freedom ship, Old Glory streaming aloft, as swiftly as possible, leaving broken, dystopian dream detritus drowning in our wake.
It’s what we do.
It’s what we are doing now.
In England, the British are just beginning to wave the Union Jack and St George’s Cross after having finally grown tired of being told they’re second-class concerns in their own country.
WTF have I just watched?!
Labour MP Bridget Phillipson is asked if she agrees with the Home Office that the rights of illegal migrants are more important than the rights of the people of Epping.
“Yes, of course we do”
They don’t even bother to hide it.
Utterly vile. pic.twitter.com/8VgBma3MfD— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) August 31, 2025
After struggling to pay rent, the onerous taxes, and being treated as little more than cash cows by the Labour government they elected overwhelmingly such a short time ago.
They give them homes rent free while British citizens have to pay.
Why?
Because they want their votes.
This is how Labour stay in power.
They use our money to bribe them. pic.twitter.com/RPDwTtyZEO— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) September 1, 2025
When the lives and quality of life they work hard to pay for are worth nothing to the government they pay handsomely to support, things begin to become untenable.
Meet Edward Brown KC, the Home Office’s counsel.
A close friend of Starmer, he told the #Epping judges that asylum hotels are “essential national infrastructure”.
RE: child rape, he said: “In a free society, we’re all obliged to put up with some degree of perceived nuisance.” pic.twitter.com/3YkZI3nua4
— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) August 30, 2025
Naturally, resentment and anger build at the broken promises, the sneering condescension, the complete disregard for your expressed wishes, and at the contempt for the formerly cherished rights of Englishmen.
The British are tired of holding their tongues for fear of knocks at the door, or being dragged off the street by a gaggle of coppers because you said or Xweeted the wrong thing about one of the myriad, protected, special victim groups, none of which ever includes the average British citizen, and that’s on purpose.
Where criticizing everything and anything is crime.
Fears over two-tier policing are an ‘extreme right wing narrative’, a leaked Home Office report claims.
The major review of extremism also says grooming gangs – referred to as ‘alleged group-based sexual abuse’ – are an issue exploited by the far-right to stir hatred against Muslims.
An England where the government can watch peaceful protests mobilize in every quiet corner of the country over the weekend in response to the unspeakable injustice of its fight to keep ‘migrants’ housed in hotels next to schools in towns that clearly want nothing to do with them.
And then that same government allowed police to snatch one of the country’s most beloved comedic writers and stand-up comics as he came off an airplane from the States over mean tweets he posted back in April.
What an in-your-face to every citizen of the United Kingdom, large or small. Where an Irishman is a ‘foreigner.’
NONE OF YOU MATTER AGAINST THE POWER OF LABOUR
Graham Linehan was arrested by armed police officers at Heathrow airport for writing gender-critical posts on social media.
The Irish comedy writer – who came up with TV sitcoms Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Books – has become a vocal critic of the trans rights movement in recent years.
In a lengthy post on his Substack blog, the 57-year-old claimed he was detained at the airport by five officers after returning from Arizona over three tweets posted in April.
Linehan is facing trial at Westminster magistrates’ court on Thursday this week over two separate charges – one of harassing Sophia Brooks, a transgender activist, on social media and another of damaging Brooks’s mobile phone in October.
Linehan is going to trial over this Xweet:
If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.
— Graham Linehan 🎗️ (@Glinner) April 20, 2025
Maybe these same people weren’t as loud when Lucy Connolly was hauled away, but they sure are now.
Free speech row explodes as Father Ted creator arrested by armed cops over tweets
Five armed police arrested the Father Ted writer as he got off a plane, sparking fury about the state of free speech in Britain.
…The arrest has sparked huge debate among MPs from a range of parties condemning it.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick told the Express: “The police only send an officer to one in 5 reported shoplifting offences, but somehow think it’s appropriate to deploy 5 armed officers to arrest a comedian over three tweets.
“It’s ridiculous and a complete waste of police time. We desperately need a return to common sense policing, where officers go after actual criminals.”
Reform deputy leader Richard Tice blasted: “This over the top, terrorist-style reaction by the police to a series of tweets is extraordinary. Be under no illusion: freedom of speech in Starmer’s Britain is in grave danger.”
Linehan wound up in the hospital as the police interrogation went on, thanks to his blood pressure spiking over 200.
…Later, during the interview itself, the tone shifted. The officer conducting it asked about each of the terrible tweets in turn, with the sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like… oh, I dunno—crime? I explained that the ‘punch’ tweet was a serious point made with a joke. Men who enter women’s spaces ARE abusers and they need to be challenged every time. The ‘punch in the bollocks’ bit was about the height difference between men and women, the bollocks being closer to punch level for a woman defending her rights and certainly not a call to violence. (Not one of my best as one of the female officers said “We’re not THAT small”).
He mentioned “trans people”. I asked him what he meant by the phrase. “People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.” I said “Assigned at birth? Our sex isn’t assigned.” He called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language. The damage Stonewall has done to the UK police force will take years to mend.
Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200—stroke territory. The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life! So I was escorted to A&E, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation.
…The police themselves, for the most part, were consistently decent throughout this farce. Some were even Father Ted fans. Thank God the Catholic Church never had with the police the special relationship granted to trans activists. The male officers were mostly polite but clearly nonplussed by the politics of it all—just doing their jobs, however insane those jobs had become. The female officers seemed more tuned in to what was actually happening. One mentioned the Sandie Peggie case in a certain way, and I realised I was among friends, even if they couldn’t admit it.
I looked at the single bail condition: I am not to go on Twitter. That’s it. No threats, no speeches about the seriousness of my crimes—just a legal gag order designed to shut me up while I’m the UK, and a demand I face a further interview in October.
The civility of individual officers doesn’t alter the fundamental reality of what happened. I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online—all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers. To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad.
In rather a neat piece of irony, after this little fascist piece of business with Father Ted’s creator making a huge splash, Starmer gets to deal with the fallout from the States, as Nigel Farage is scheduled to address Congress on the subject of *checks notes* the shocking restrictions on the right of ‘free speech’ in the United Kingdom.
Now sadly true of the UK. This @Glinner story today.
So glad I just renewed my @SpeechUnion subscription.
It comes the day before Farage testifies to US Congress on “European threats to Free Speech”.
You could not make this up. pic.twitter.com/2EIPtkTEP2— Mark Tughan (@marktughan) September 2, 2025
I read a great piece today about the rising anger in the working classes of England that starts with a quote by the Duke of Wellington. It’s a warning from the past to the sneering elites now abusing and brutalizing the goodwill of those same people.
‘I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.’
Keir Starmer, his ministers, and his Starmtrooper enforcers are running out of time.
…The Duke of Wellington’s quote about his men frightening him applies 100% to Two Tier Keir and his fellow Professional Managerial Class sorts. This is something that has been true from time to time in Britain, but I don’t think it has ever been quite so clear. The outrageous jailings for Xeets after last year’s Southport killings and subsequent riots were symptomatic – just as the J6 prosecutions were in the USA – of a government that is so scared of its citizens that it will do anything it can to try and cow them back into obedient subservience.
A year ago it worked. But I’m not sure it’s going to work this time. “Operation Raise the Colours” is so clearly peaceful and so clearly driving the government batty. Moreover the Raise the Colours groups (and the pink ladies protesting the hotels) are doing something that also scares the government – organizing locally – but that they can’t really fight. The censorship of the OSA doesn’t stop this. It may stop some of the actual racists getting their message out – though I’m skeptical – but it is completely unable to stop local groups using existing local associations to organize protests.
For now the Raise the Colours groups are peaceful. The migrant hotel protests are mostly peaceful. Both are, however, a warning and a threat to the government. I’d say the last time the UK faced a similar level of threat was the Miners’ Strike against Mrs Thather’s government in the 1980s. There were a number of ugly incidents, but for various reasons the miners never managed to convince enough of the rest of the country that they were in the right. This time that does not apply. The migrant issues are affecting people everywhere from Epping Forest and Bournemouth to deprived inner cities.
As he says, these British aren’t racist, they aren’t transphobic. They’re normal and patriotic.
And they’re over it.
I’d say Starmer would be wise to look to history for guidance, but as he’s the one who’s taken all those portraits off the walls, it doesn’t seem to be a priority for him.
C’est la vie.
Can’t wait to hear what Farage has to say.
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