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Indeed - I agree on the difficulty of defining what the person knew, but is it not true that Sporforth claims she had read some information and then published a caveated remark. She wrongly published the following which I have had to obtain from an archiving website because it seems tohave been...

This is a MUST read article if you have any interest in the subject of the Online Communications Act and its consequences. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-persecution-of-the-plebs/ Short extract - fair use: After discussing the case of Bernadette Sporforth arrested for posting the...

I know. That is why I used the example. The point is, if we had had such a prescription as Section 179 of the Online Communications Act in 2020, someone making the kind of points we are talking about (which I did not agree with by the way) could easily have been arrested and punished.

Well we are not any longer in the situation we were back then, or perhaps more accurately in 2020 when we were having daily briefings on TV and bizarre restrictions imposed. The point is that this act COULD be employed to shut down debate, were people in government and the judicial system minded...

If you charge your bike up right now, only 6.7% of the electricity will be generated by fossil fuels. Your battery will be recharged (say half a kilowatt hour ) with emissions of only 20 grams of co2, which is I think about the same amount as you breathe out in two hours while sitting on a...

Yes - I was was not referring to that Mrs Sweeney. She pleaded guilty to a different offence relating to urging violent action. I confused the issue by using that name.

Think about this law and how it would apply to an online discussion about the Covid-19 virus taking place a couple of years ago in 2022. Imagine a participant in this forum on the health and corona virus thread writing that he believed that the virus was semi harmless and that the vaccinations...

I asked last night how the court would establish in relation to points 2 and 3 of Section 179 whether the person knew something to be false, and whether they intended harm. There is an assumption in the conception of the offence that other people - the jury, a group of people randomly...

Some time ago, when I first retired, I spent a good number of days attending court proceedings and I was frequently unimpressed by the work rate of those involved (very large numbers of adjournments for no good reason) and some quite strange remarks about the defendants and the circumstances of...

There is some very good writing in the Spectator. I commend it to you Peter. Fraser Nelson and Douglas Murray are good, and Lionel Shriver, I like. There is some very good writing on Russia too, maybe not as good as Rosenberg at the BBC though. He is brilliant. To be fair, there is also some...

Of course, I have heard it said that in Scotland, that jewel of the Enlightenment, you can be sent to Barlinnie for misgendering someone. Those dodgy Olympic women boxer gold medalists are apparently having a go at JK Rowling and someone else for their remarks about 'male' boxers knocking women...

That act (online communications) forbids posting anything that is false if the court thinks you knew it was false and intended to cause non trivial harm. What I want to know is how the court will know what you knew and how they will know what you intended? All of that is in between the sender's...

You just beat me to this point you make Peter. I literally just came to this site to post the details you have presented. It is not the act that I had assumed from what I had gleaned elsewhere. That said, I would still suggest that a) the sentence is far too harsh for what she did and b) that...

My new petrol Skoda is ALWAYS powered by nuclear fusion. It uses the fusion power of the Sun that was stored in the earth millions of years ago by plants and bacteria using that fusion to create complex hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons in petrol are not 'the power'; the Sun's fusion reaction...

Broadly true, and I don't disagree about the savage sentence, but the train driver was coshed and was never the same again. This wasn't a Robin Hood type offence. None of that gets away from the core of the argument about the nature of so called 'exemplary' sentences. They are there to send a...

I knew I'd seen you before ......

Re The Sweeney woman charged with making threats to kill. I am convinced she could appeal this and win. It is more or less exactly like the case I related before, in which the defendant was first found guilty and then on appeal found not guilty.

I think people who go in submarines are pretty strong in the self control department. I saw Das Boot in the 1990s. I wouldn't fancy that. I watched it several times because I loved the scene where the featured submarine was crashing through the Atlantic storm on the surface. I thought it was...

Strangely - when the Roma folks rioted about three weeks ago when the social services took some allegedly neglected children into care, nothing happened. My memory seems to tell me that they burned a police car and made a lot of trouble, but I am not aware of any court proceedings about that...

Yes - I agree. It is pretty obvious that in another time, the courts would probably not even be involved in a stupid, if reprehensible remark like that. While I am dead against violence and disorder, and while I understand that the disorder needs to stop and violence and arson needs to be...