Alastair Donald (@maximumcities) 's Twitter Profile
Alastair Donald

@maximumcities

Co-convenor #BattleFest @acadofideas; convenor @LivingFreedomUK for @IdeasMatterUK; author, #LetterOnLiberty 'The Scottish Question'

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Noah Keate (@noahkeate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Angela Rayner's Times op-ed originally said "by law, they [16-year-olds] can get married" despite the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 raising the age of marriage to 18. This was edited out in an updated version (with no correction). thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Angela Rayner's Times op-ed originally said "by law, they [16-year-olds] can get married" despite the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 raising the age of marriage to 18. This was edited out in an updated version (with no correction). 
thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
Claire Fox (@fox_claire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I can't tell you how incensed I am about the Afghan coverup. It is nothing less than a conspiracy against the British people. Below Jacob Reynolds and I give our first thoughts for Academy of Ideas on this outrageous attempt to hide something so important from the public - it really

Claire Fox (@fox_claire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday we had Evgeny Lebedev's short debate on free speech. I emphasised how a whole clamp-down on free speech is undermining trust in police, criminal justice and state institutions. In passing, I told the story of Montgomery Toms' arrest for holding a placard...

Montgomery Toms (@montgomerytoms) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you so much Claire for highlighting this in the House Of Lords. My arrest, as many know, is a direct attack of free speech and expression. We need to push back! #FreedomOfSpeech

Kevin McKenna (@kmckenna63) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'I was compared to Tommy Robinson for daring to stand up for women’s spaces’: more nurses come forward to condemn the RCN over trans policies | my interview in The Herald heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…

Academy of Ideas (@acadofideas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We need to get rid of 'top-down' multiculturalism. Paul Embery argues against the permissive nature of 'hard multiculturalism'. While people should be able to 'live their lives as they wish' within the law, we shouldn't as a society promote the separateness of groups.

Times Radio (@timesradio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"This is why people lose faith in the press." People risk being "disenfranchised" when the media focuses solely on the "ugly fringes" that disrupt peaceful protests, says communications consultant Liam Deacon.

J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Four 'ordinary' women who've fought for women's and girls' rights to safety, privacy and dignity at immense personal cost, taking on well-funded lobby groups, ideologically captured public bodies and a political class that treats women with contempt. Actual, real life heroines 🔥

Kate Hoey (@catharinehoey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This Labour Government seems to want to hide all sorts of important decisions but the secrecy over a publicly funded working group is inexcusable.

Benjamin Jones (@benbarryjones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you have a standard X account in the UK - presumably the vast majority of British users - you cannot see any protest footage that contains any violence tonight. Because of the Online Safety Act. A relative in America sent me this screenshot of one blocked post

If you have a standard X account in the UK - presumably the vast majority of British users - you cannot see any protest footage that contains any violence tonight. Because of the Online Safety Act.

A relative in America sent me this screenshot of one blocked post
Nico Perrino (@nicoperrino) 's Twitter Profile Photo

But I thought the government assured us identity verification is safe, and requiring it is only a minor impediment to accessing Constitutionally protected speech online?

But I thought the government assured us identity verification is safe, and requiring it is only a minor impediment to accessing Constitutionally protected speech online?
Claire Fox (@fox_claire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Those few of us who opposed this law when in House of Lords fought hard to expose its threat to free speech & privacy. This thread explains how dangerous. & illberal it is. One of its core claims-protecting children-doesn't hold up to scrutiny & for adults, it's a tool online

Iona Italia, PhD 🇦🇺 (@ionaitalia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Phil Craig's kaleidoscopic history of the end of the Second World War is my favourite book of 2025 so far and we have just published a juicy excerpt in Quillette. With audio by yours truly. 🎧 quillette.com/2025/07/25/the…

The Free Speech Union (@speechunion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Our fears appear to have been vindicated on the very first day of the Online Safety Act's enactment. Some footage of protests taking place this evening against illegal immigration is unavailable on X for at least some UK users, with a warning about a restriction due to ‘local

Philip Simon - Stand Up Comedian (@philipscomedy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Following on from news my & Aaron Levene’s long running compilation show, Jew-O-Rama, was being cancelled by Whistlebinkies due to concerns over “staff safety”, yesterday I learnt that my solo show, Shall I Compere Thee in a Funny Way? was being dropped by Banshee Labyrinth. 1/8

Following on from news my & Aaron Levene’s long running compilation show, Jew-O-Rama, was being cancelled by Whistlebinkies due to concerns over “staff safety”, yesterday I learnt that my solo show, Shall I Compere Thee in a Funny Way? was being dropped by Banshee Labyrinth.

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