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as granted after the trial judge fined and imprisoned him for not returning a guilty verdict since mr bushell wrongly did porridge for saving quakers the law has moved on and in england it is forbidden to mention jury nullification in court the court of appeal s judgment held that whilst jurors have to give verdicts according to the law and the evidence there is no mechanism to punish them if they do not do so provided they actually follow the rules and are either split with no verdict or acquit the court said this bushell s case may be best understood as recognising an immunity from punishment in respect of their decision as to what verdict to return rather than a right to return verdicts in defiance of the evidence a distinction that might be lost on some but it means that the concept of nullification cannot be raised in court as part of a defence and would it be wrong to think that in the states jury nullification is seen as a pro liberty stance as a check on an overly powerful state whereas jury equity in the uk is seen as a way to undermine property rights and allow socialist violence to go unchecked the supreme court is based in england but it sits as a uk court it could yet hear an appeal from this case if an appeal were brought january 21st 2026 29 comments comments are closed iran s unrest perry de havilland prague activism middle east islamic i do not have a good enough grasp of iran s internal political and social dynamics to know if this wave of resistance has an real prospect of unseating the ghastly islamic regime but that would indeed be a truly wonderous start to 2026 if it was to happen january 1st 2026 39 comments comments are closed an english court upholds the right to be critical of unreformed islam mr ed activism civil liberty law regulation internet middle east islamic opinions on liberty philosophical religion social media nonsense uk affairs in what might come as a surprise to some and i would suggest is a counter to a broad narrative an employment tribunal a form of labour court in england has upheld the principle that criticism of unreformed islam is legally protected the tribunal considered a preliminary point as to whether or not the claimant plaintiff in old sound money could in principle bring a claim on the basis that he held a belief that had sufficient cogency as to be worthy of respect in a democratic society as far as can be discerned from the judgment there was an issue which is very much now an issue for a determination on the merits at a later hearing as to whether the employer was taking action against the claimant the circumstances of which we know nothing because of his manifestation of his belief which is permissible rather than because he simply held those beliefs which is not permissible e g a nurse who is a devout christian being sacked for being a christian rather than specifically sacked for e g saying to a seriously ill patient convert or face hell fire soon which could well be a manifestation of a belief at which offence might be taken the issue that the tribunal considered is set out in the judgment linked above as follows the belief that islam particularly in a traditional form rather than a reformed modernised moderate and westernised form is problematic and deserving of criticism in so far as it fails i to recognise a separation between religion sacred and politics secular and or the church and state ii to value and respect fundamental human rights such as freedom of conscience and of speech to eschew and condemn violence in the name of religion islam to treat and respect women and girls equally when compared to men and boys the claimant appears to have been hauled up by his employer over his twitter x usage there is reference to a file of 141 pages showing his twitter feed which the employer sought at this stage to use to argue that his belief in the need for a reformation of unreformed islam was not genuinely held i e that he was using this belief as a shield for views that would not be protected that is yet to be determined if it is continued with by the employer the main points of the claimant s case were the following which he considered problematic were noted at paragraph 13 in the judgment i n his witness statement c 14 the claimant has cited the following traditional and unreformed islamic belief s that are that are incompatible with western values in that they i advocate or justify violence against non believers or apostates ii promote unequal legal status for women iii call for the death penalty for apostasy blasphemy or homosexuality iv reject the separation of religion and state and seek to impose religious law v promote antisemitism or hatred towards groups including reformed muslims vi condone child marriage vii permit forms of slavery or indentured servitude viii justify domestic violence including wife beating and female genital mutilation fgm it is important to note here that the claimant s belief isn t about hostility towards muslims as such but to the holding and promotion of the unreformed version of islam that he is objecting to the issue for the tribunal hearing the final case is summed up at paragraph 17 the degree to which the claimant will be able to establish that these tweets were a manifestation of the pleaded belief or that the respondent will be able to show that these were inappropriate manifestations of or otherwise separable from the belief are matters which fall to be decided at the final hearing i e was the claimant criticism of the unreformed islam that he weighs in against inappropriate which takes into account the position that he held in the employer that he worked or works for there is nothing in this judgment that surprises me it seems to be a legally sound decision that the principle of criticising a belief on the basis of its incompatibility with western values whatever they might be is one where not only is it lawful but an employer who acts against an employee for doing so unless the manifestation is inappropriate is itself acting unlawfully clearly given that courts are holding that such expression is legally protected in principle any notion that such comments are criminally unlawful are unfounded so any police action arising from those tweets would be wholly unlawful december 25th 2025 25 comments comments are closed samizdata quote of the day how to beat the tyranny of what everyone knows perry de havilland prague activism culture wars consider almost any apparently current common knowledge today net zero critical race theory trans diversity is our strength and you will find instead a minority concern elevated to common knowledge with the dictatorial overlord shouting down those who dare speak against it this is most acutely felt within academia and certain corporates but all of us at some point will have self censored for fear our opinions are not common knowledge when in fact they probably are if as a society we can succeed in getting a proper handle on common knowledge we will greatly improve our country and our sense of ease within it joanna gray october 23rd 2025 10 comments comments are closed net zero this isn t science it s ideology samizdata illuminatus arkham massachusetts activism environment from kathryn porter and the good lads at triggernometry highly recommended september 29th 2025 6 comments comments are closed this not not a fight the uk government can win using the old playbook perry de havilland prague activism civil liberty law regulation culture wars media journalism uk affairs it has been interesting to see the predictably alarmed reactions to the huge march in london organised by tommy robinson et al one remark i heard on a video was the most alarming aspect of the event was just how normal the vast majority of the marchers were the sort of people you d meet in a country pub or at a half time queue for the loo or a concert at first my reaction to hearing that was surely the normality of the crowd should have made the march less alarming but then i realised the marchers not being stereotypical bovver boys makes plausibly labelling the demonstration as far right vastly harder yes i can see how that might alarm some people as the magic words racist fascist and far right lose their power from years of overuse and the fact there were reggae bands and alarmingly black faces in the crowd september 14th 2025 16 comments comments are closed samizdata quote of the day raising the flag perry de havilland prague activism slogans quotations uk affairs what began as scattered acts of defiance has blossomed into a nationwide movement st george s crosses and union jacks hoisted on lampposts motorway bridges and public spaces from birmingham s shard end to tower hamlets in east london southampton to brighton and even cannock roundabouts painted red and white zebra crossings marked with the cross symbols of england asserting themselves in the urban landscape last night i cycled through london s labour stronghold of lambeth and road markings have been transformed with the st george s cross a quiet but bold reclamation in one of london s most diverse boroughs dubbed operation raise the colours by organisers though it is hard to describe the phenomenon as organised it has seen thousands of flags raised with fundraising efforts like birmingham s 16 000 drive sustaining the effort i support this gentle uprising for it breathes life into symbols long marginalised gawain towler august 25th 2025 51 comments comments are closed from small acorns do mighty trees grow perry de havilland prague activism privacy panopticon uk affairs thousands upon thousands of ulez cameras have been destroyed by the bladerunners way more than 5 000 last year alone frankyboynoulez no ulez song big up joshyboi1990 and give him a follow bladerunners noulez ulez nopaypermile paypermile bladerunner dennisthedinosaur deadulez ulezcamera paypermilecamera fyp matthardybladerunner jasonnoulez dan the man with a van 2 0 vanhunterphil unicorn no ulez london bladerunners bladerunnersuk original sound frankyboynoulez august 24th 2025 20 comments comments are closed say no to police state britain perry de havilland prague activism civil liberty law regulation internet uk affairs the bbc says according to ofcom platforms must not host share or permit content encouraging use of vpns to get around age checks i encourage the use a vpn to get around all state abridgement of people s right to access the internet including age checks say no to police state britain not to mention a vpn enhances your security online july 31st 2025 38 comments comments are closed pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall an irrational police chief s bad day in court mr ed activism antics parties civil liberty law regulation mindless inequality blather sexuality totalitarianism uk affairs the high court in england wales has handed down a judgment declaring that the chief constable of northumbria police a force covering northumberland newcastle and sunderland basically the upper part of north east england acted irrationally in letting her officers participate in and support a pride event in 2024 in short the issue was that the claimant plaintiff to our friends over the ocean a gender critical lesbian objected to members of the local police force force and or members of the force associating themselves with the views of supporters of gender ideology and transgender activists by actively participating in the northern pride event in newcastle in july 2024 the claimant s belief is that as a person who is gender critical she believes that a person s sex is an immutable characteristic and that gender ideology which recognises a person s gender identity is wrong and dangerous to cut a long story short the learned judge mr justice linden upheld the complaint putting it simply the judge looked at the chief constable s reasons for authorising her officers to participate in the pride event and found them to be irrational i e there was no way that the decision could have been taken by a rational chief constable the crux of the case was that police officers have a duty to be impartial and to appear to be impartial the chief constable decided that the duty to be impartial was subject to the public sector equality duty a general duty used wrongly here as a catch all to justify any deviation from the norms of acceptable conduct but the judge said that it was the other way around the duty to be impartial is an absolute duty and the public sector equality duty is a duty to have regard to the need to achieve equality rather than the need to achieve it the equality cart was put before the impartiality horse at the end of the judgment is a rather stinging finding about the defendant the chief constable in paragraph 136 i have already explained that the defendant s reasoning did not provide a rational basis for her decision after careful consideration i have also concluded that the effect of the activities challenged by the claimant was sufficiently obvious for the defendant s decision to be outside the range of reasonable decisions open to her i should point out for our readers that in england wales judges are appointed by a commission and the notion of a judge being akin to an obama judge a biden judge or a trump appointee is alien here but of course the exalted echelons of higher legal circles contain in the main the sort of people who holding a conference on law to all comers would see nothing untoward in sneering at a conservative government s legal difficulties or brexit and the overton window in the legal community is more like a pinprick hole in a camera obscura but that is not the point what i would say is that in england wales the more senior judges will tend to stick to the law and this may produce apparently surprising results like this case so what happens now well in respect of last year s event nothing other than this court s finding however this judgment although from a judge who is in the first level of the english courts amounts to a legal slap in the face with a wet fish to activist police officers and will no doubt embolden those who seek to reduce or dilute the endless stream of agitprop we see coming from our police forces and to an extent in the wider public sector it also helps to show that there is a difference between the activist version of the law and reality will the police and crime commissioner for northumbria take any steps like asking the irrational chief constable to resign well i d be more surprised by that than the second coming july 20th 2025 33 comments comments are closed in sweden we are all guilty say the police paraphrasing mr ed activism european affairs events how very odd international affairs media journalism officers of the swedish police have made an announcement regarding the 30 or so bombings in the country in january 2025 attributed to extortion of businesses by criminal gangs and have said that they can t cope and they ne...