It’s been about a year since the non-violent Southport protestors were arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced en masse.

It remains one of the most aggressive crackdowns on free speech in modern Britain.

So where are they now, a year on?

Here’s a look.

Thread 🧵 For clarity, it seems right to lay out how the Southport protestors' treatment by the police, CPS, and judiciary fundamentally differed from other cases.

Let's start with the evidence of "two-tier policing"...

It appears British authorities have once again chosen to "cover up" the asylum seeker background of a suspected r*pist ...

The finer details about the case and why it spells trouble for Labour's plan.

Thread 🧵 Two reported Afghan asylum seekers have been charged over the alleged r*pe of a 12-year-old white girl, sending shockwaves through the small Midlands town of Nuneaton. The Mail on Sunday broke the story on Friday.

We need to talk about Peter Kyle MP.

He’s Keir Starmer’s Science Secretary—a rising figure in Labour’s front bench.

Turns out, he has quite a few skeletons in his closet.

Thread 🧵 Earlier today, Peter Kyle—the minister responsible for UK technology policy—did the media rounds promoting the government’s new age verification rules under the Online Safety Act.

When you step back and look at the events of the last week…

It’s not just that the British establishment is out of touch.

It’s that it increasingly seems like they hold so many of their own people in utter contempt.

Some would say we're a nation in pain.

Thread 🧵 The last few days have exposed some of the most disturbing responses yet from our political establishment and authorities—triggered by growing backlash over immigration, crime, the economy, and the erosion of free speech.

The British Government needs to come clean about the 24,000 Afghans they secretly offered asylum to...

Thousands are already here. More are on the way.

It could arguably become the worst national security failure in British history.

An attempted honest breakdown.

Thread 🧵 To recap:

Last week, we learnt the government secretly ushered in thousands of Afghans after a data leak compromised their personal information.

There was worry the Taliban could hunt them down.

In Oct 24, Labour expanded the scheme—offering asylum to a reported 24,000.

Some call it Britain’s "Watergate".

Others say it's an exaggeration.

What we do know: the UK government secretly ushered in thousands of foreigners—into hotels and military bases—after a devastating MoD leak.

The most scandalous details...

Thread 🧵 To recap, in 2022, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) official accidentally leaked data identifying Afghan asylum applicants.

Everybody freaked, worried hostile actors would get wind. In response, the government and courts effectively suspended democracy for nearly 2 years.

The council leader at the centre of yet another grooming gang data scandal.

And it's another Labour politician...

Thread 🧵 Bev Craig became leader of Manchester City Council in December 2021, making history as the city’s first female and LGBT council leader.

Essex Police have been up to some astonishing things...

At the centre of it? One man, whom most have probably never heard of.

Ben-Julian Harrington, Chief Constable of Essex Police.

His force's conduct might leave you speechless.

Thread 🧵 Harrington has served as Chief Constable of Essex Police since 2018, following previous roles as the force’s Deputy Chief and as a senior officer with the Metropolitan Police Service.

What’s happening in Portsmouth shows just how far we still are from putting public safety before politics.

Certain councils—and even local media—are still making the same “mistakes” that led to the scandal.

Updates on the asylum seeker sexual assault "cover-up" in Portsmouth.

Thread 🧵 The independent councillor who blew the whistle on a council chief executive’s alleged attempt to cover up a r*pe charge has now confirmed she is under formal investigation.

This is Councillor @georgedmadgwick

He recently blew the whistle on Portsmouth City Council.

Why? Because senior officials tried to suppress news that an asylum seeker—housed at public expense—had been charged with r*pe.

The essential dets and peeps involved. Thread 🧵 It all began last week, when rumours that an asylum-seeker had committed a r*pe circulated online. In response, council officials held private briefings with various councillors and party leaders.

The UK Home Office has come under heavy fire of late.

The recent "right-wing" terrorist definitions being a case in point...

But behind-the-scenes, they've been up to much more and worse.

Our American cousins might look on in disbelief.

Thread (Part 4) 🧵 There was so much to cover here I had to break it into four parts.

This is the last, part four — Bureaucratic Activism.

The Home Office and our counter-terrorism units have come under heavy fire of late.

The "right-wing" terrorist definitions being a case in point.

But behind-the-scenes, they've been up to much more and worse.

Others countries might look on in shock.

Thread (Part 3) 🧵 There was so damn much to cover here I had to break it into four parts.

Consider this part three — Incompetence and/or Negligence and Waste

Casey’s rapid review has vindicated so many who, for years, were smeared as liars.

Now, it's clear they were right, particularly about the Home Office report...

Here’s a quick look at some of those who persistently dismissed and undermined the truth.

Thread 🧵 Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate.

In a 2013 BBC interview:

"Sexual predators come from all backgrounds... That is why we need to be vigilant about not creating stereotypes around just Pakistani men..."

This "anti-fascist" censor previously advised the government.

The Home Office and our counter-terrorism apparatus have come under heavy criticism of late.

But their recent "terrorist" definitions only scratch the surface...

Behind-the-scenes they've been up to much worse.

Others countries might look on in shock.

Thread (Part 2) 🧵 There was so much to cover here that I had to break it into four parts.

Consider this Part 2 — Data Concealment and Manipulation.

It's out.

Baroness Casey has published her rapid review into grooming gangs.

It's 197 pages long.

Here's some of the major observations so far scanning through.

Thread 🧵 Systemic and Institutional Failures

“The policy and delivery landscape… requires strong leadership… But what emerges instead… is a repeating cycle: seminal moments of scandal and public outrage which lead to bursts of government focus and activity but no sustained improvement…”

The UK Home Office and its counter-terrorism unit Prevent have come under heavy criticism of late.

But their recent "terrorist" definitions only scratch the surface...

Behind-the-scenes they've been up to much more and worse.

Others countries might look on in shock.

Thread 🧵 There's so damn much to cover, so here I'll just focus on what some might classify as overt political prejudice.

Consider this part 1. The next ones will focus on data concealment/manipulation, negligence and/or incompetence, and bureaucratic activism.

Britain's most reckless and hypocritical MP?—Miliband investigated.

Thread 🧵 It seems right to start off with Miliband’s conflicts of interest, which should have perhaps disqualified him as Energy Secretary. Yet, they appear to have been ignored.

There's been a lot of talk of blasphemy laws this week...

It follows Hamit Coskun's religiously aggravated public order conviction for burning a Koran.

Yet, the most scandalous part wasn't necessarily the verdict but the authorities' conduct.

Thread 🧵 This week, Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence for burning a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London earlier in February.

There's been a lot of news about our "impartial" Attorney General, Lord Richard Hermer, as of late...

So here it is, all in one place.

Thread 🧵 There are moments that cut through the noise and reveal a situation for what it really is. The recent comments from our Attorney General, Lord Richard Hermer, was one of those moments.

Every bit of "tyrannical" legislation Labour have in the works...

Thread 🧵 In Feb, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tabled the Crime and Policing Bill in the Commons, with the aim of “halving knife crime and violence against women and girls in a decade".

Meet Kevin Lister—a maths teacher sacked in 2021 for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

Today, he takes his fight to the Appeals Tribunal.

The outcome could reshape British education.

Thread 🧵 When mathematician and father of two, Kevin Lister, went to work one day in September 2021, he would unknowingly face a situation that would change his life for the foreseeable future.