I'm horrified by this injustice and now, after finishing "The End of Woke". I am now much more cautious about commenting on any platform about anything! And by the way. "The End of Woke" is brilliant - everyone should get it!
Cowardice, self serving interests, lack of knowledge, and, a lack of challenge.
I am even willing to wager, Andrew, that even if you manage to present the word to their little bubble, it will only be used as a word and nothing more.
Can you think of any modern political class, which didn’t change because they were made to, but because they wanted to?
And then you need to do the same to the courts of what we call justice here…
Top marks for the End of Woke, Andrew -- worth every penny! May I make just one comment?
When you deal with the case of the man pretending to be a woman who shouted words to the effect "if you see a terf punch her in the face" you do not mention the appalling decision to acquit him of any crime by one of the city of London Magistrates on the basis that he didn't really mean it! Contrast that bit of execrable two tier Justice with the vicious treatment of Lucy Connolly. I was a London barrister for more than 40 years and I never dreamed even in my nightmares that our top judges would ever obey covert instructions from the state ie from the government.
The huge injustice in the Lucy Connelly case has had a lot of press coverage recently. Mostly in right-leaning publications I think. But I’m afraid like all such stories it will be a 5 minute wonder until the next disgraceful example of two-tier policing makes the front pages. I’ve also just finished The End of Woke. It’s an astonishing and very important book. But, and I hate to say this, Andrew is preaching to the converted. The gap now between authoritarianism and liberalism is, I’m afraid, too wide to be breached. Meantime, it would be good to know how Andrew got on in the US. Is he back now in the UK for good, what his plans are and so forth. So please Andrew an update for your followers?
Yes, I'll definitely be giving updates as and when they are merited!
And I agree that the book will mostly be read by those who already agree. But I'm hoping that even they might find their views challenged on occasion, particularly when it comes to liberalism.
If you've never even picked up a parking ticket in a long, law-abiding life then you're right, Andrew, suddenly finding yourself in a cell surrounded by police and threatened with court action must be terrifying. Your defences are down, you feel vulnerable and quite possibly suggestible. As has been repeated so often, 'Control what people say and you control what they think.' What happened to those firebrand campaigning journalists of old who would take on the establishment? Where are they in the media? And where are the legions of human rights lawyers when a white British woman needs one?
I thought of Lucy Connolly yesterday while watching The Winslow Boy on Film4. Sir Robert Morton starts his speech to the House (along the lines of) "What has this puny little affair of a 14-year-old schoolboy and the alleged theft of the paltry sum of 5 shillings... what has this to do with such grave matters as our rights and liberties? What indeed? Only this! Once allowed through unconcern, one act of injustice, and by degrees, the slow poison of indifference, by being convenient may cripple and destroy those rights and liberties." He ends his speech with that famously emotive plea, "Let right be done."
I'm horrified by this injustice and now, after finishing "The End of Woke". I am now much more cautious about commenting on any platform about anything! And by the way. "The End of Woke" is brilliant - everyone should get it!
Thank you, Terri!
I'm about half way through listening to the audiobook, and am loving it (just like The New Puritans and Free Speech).
I love Andrew’s use of English and dry wit. While listening to the book I laughed out loud so many times.
She was prosecuted in a typical authoritarian fashion - to be made an example of what happens to ones who challenge the Party and the Faith.
No, she shouldn’t be, unfortunately she is not the only one either.
And I have no faith, that the ones who abused power to make an example of her, will be much inconvenienced for their zeal.
A shame and a disgrace, the Brandenburg test seems to have sense.
Thank you, Den… Andrew
I have yet to hear any politician in the UK even suggest the Brandenburg test as a standard. Cowardice, maybe?
Cowardice, self serving interests, lack of knowledge, and, a lack of challenge.
I am even willing to wager, Andrew, that even if you manage to present the word to their little bubble, it will only be used as a word and nothing more.
Can you think of any modern political class, which didn’t change because they were made to, but because they wanted to?
And then you need to do the same to the courts of what we call justice here…
Top marks for the End of Woke, Andrew -- worth every penny! May I make just one comment?
When you deal with the case of the man pretending to be a woman who shouted words to the effect "if you see a terf punch her in the face" you do not mention the appalling decision to acquit him of any crime by one of the city of London Magistrates on the basis that he didn't really mean it! Contrast that bit of execrable two tier Justice with the vicious treatment of Lucy Connolly. I was a London barrister for more than 40 years and I never dreamed even in my nightmares that our top judges would ever obey covert instructions from the state ie from the government.
Thanks Charles. I actually didn't know that!
The huge injustice in the Lucy Connelly case has had a lot of press coverage recently. Mostly in right-leaning publications I think. But I’m afraid like all such stories it will be a 5 minute wonder until the next disgraceful example of two-tier policing makes the front pages. I’ve also just finished The End of Woke. It’s an astonishing and very important book. But, and I hate to say this, Andrew is preaching to the converted. The gap now between authoritarianism and liberalism is, I’m afraid, too wide to be breached. Meantime, it would be good to know how Andrew got on in the US. Is he back now in the UK for good, what his plans are and so forth. So please Andrew an update for your followers?
Yes, I'll definitely be giving updates as and when they are merited!
And I agree that the book will mostly be read by those who already agree. But I'm hoping that even they might find their views challenged on occasion, particularly when it comes to liberalism.
If you've never even picked up a parking ticket in a long, law-abiding life then you're right, Andrew, suddenly finding yourself in a cell surrounded by police and threatened with court action must be terrifying. Your defences are down, you feel vulnerable and quite possibly suggestible. As has been repeated so often, 'Control what people say and you control what they think.' What happened to those firebrand campaigning journalists of old who would take on the establishment? Where are they in the media? And where are the legions of human rights lawyers when a white British woman needs one?
I thought of Lucy Connolly yesterday while watching The Winslow Boy on Film4. Sir Robert Morton starts his speech to the House (along the lines of) "What has this puny little affair of a 14-year-old schoolboy and the alleged theft of the paltry sum of 5 shillings... what has this to do with such grave matters as our rights and liberties? What indeed? Only this! Once allowed through unconcern, one act of injustice, and by degrees, the slow poison of indifference, by being convenient may cripple and destroy those rights and liberties." He ends his speech with that famously emotive plea, "Let right be done."
Really excellent explanation of what is so wrong about Lucy's case.
Thanks, Andrew.
Have cross posted.
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-hellish-clown-car-part-1
Dusty