Kevan James January 9, 2026. It is often quite amazing how quickly things can happen. The latest event on speed dial is the controversy over allegations that Keir Starmer is going to ban social media platform X from the UK. This is due to, apparently at least, illegal imagery being created by X's in-house AI, Grok. It comes hard on the heels of recent publicity that the UK's Labour government wants to see restrictions placed on the development of AI (or 'Artificial Intelligen

Kevan James December 30, 2025. As 2025 draws to a close, many fear we may one day look back on it as the last year in which freedom of speech, and for that matter freedom generally, still felt secure - but an ever-growing threat could be seen. From the UK’s Online Safety Act and chilling of legitimate speech, to Macron’s dissolution of parliament and the EU’s Digital Services Act enforcement spree, the pattern is unmistakable: the direction of travel is without doubt towards

Kevan James November 3, 2025 Is The United Kingdom of Great Britain a lost cause? One can see comments to this effect quite frequently on social media; "The UK is finished," they say. What does that mean? Since none of these posts ever expand on their point, we can only surmise they mean the country native Brits once knew. A country that was known around the world for being essentially decent in many ways. But that country ceased to exist in the way many knew it decades ago,

Kevan James, September 28, 2025 Last week, blogger Pete North was arrested at his home in the middle of the night and taken for...