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Soviet UK: Think Before You Post

Wed 2:37 pm +00:00, 31 Dec 2025 2

posted by NPP

UK media presenter Jeremy Vine sued ex-professional footballer Joey Barton for allegedly offensive Tweets including calling Vine a ‘bike’ and a ‘nonce’. Hurty words are a thing. It’s pathetic.

I believe Joey Barton is to appeal, but how is it that typed words on Twitter now constitute a crime? Freedom of expression includes tolerating unpleasant words, at least it did. Having read 1984 in 1984 it staggers me that ‘wrong think’, ‘wrong speak’ and ‘thought crime’ are realities today that result in English people being given custodial sentences. Meanwhile President Trump has referred to the Mayor London, who is ruining my home town, as ‘horrible, vicious and disgusting’. I agree, he is! Trump has the First Amendment while Joey does not.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
I’d made various notes as I do while watching paint and dry dry, but as I was finishing off the above masterpiece of ‘not a bike nonce’, I came upon the ‘terrible’ Joey Barton talking to the ‘mad’ David Icke. I’ve listened to Part 1 and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have some of Icke’s books, but not listened to him much for some years. I played football as a boy and was very familiar with Icke as a presenter for Grandstand way before his infamous Terry Wogan Show moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbI_1ySbCY
I read his Biggest Secret book c.2005 while exhibiting in Bodrum, Türkiye and mostly sat by a swimming pool. It proposed some pretty challenging ideas.
Soviet UK: Think before you post!
https://x.com/GOVUK/status/1821502879590494358