Tommy Robinson has the last laugh after politically motivated terrorism arrest: 'Free speech won!'



Tommy Robinson has long drawn the ire and attention of British establishmentarians by raising hell about the fallout of mass immigration, the failure of multiculturalism in England, the threats posed by radical Islam, and the cover-up of the Pakistani rape-gang scandal.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, various other politicians, and even some woke clergymen have condemned him; multiple social media platforms have banned him; and he was even told to stay clear of an entire city.

'Thank you for raising the flag of England whilst so many cowards cowered.'

The desperation to shut Robinson up or, at the very least, make him go away manifested last year in the form of an unjustified police stop, which resulted in his indictment on a terrorism charge under the British equivalent of the Patriot Act.

To the likely chagrin of Robinson's detractors in parliament and to the delight of his supporters on the scene, Judge Sam Goozee of the Westminster Magistrates' Court cleared the 42-year-old activist on Tuesday, agreeing with the defense that the stop was unlawful and that police discriminated against Robinson because of what he stands for and his political beliefs.

"That judge's verdict is a slam down against the police," Robinson told reporters outside the courthouse. "Read what he says. Read about the evidence. It was corrupt. It was unlawful."

"I'm frustrated still. I should be happy. I'm not happy because I shouldn't be put through this time and time again," Robinson added.

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On July 28, 2024 — a day after organizing a political rally — Robinson was detained by Kent police under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act while attempting to travel to Spain, where he now lives. During his detention, Robinson was told to give police the PIN necessary to access his phone.

Robinson allegedly told police, "Not a chance, bruv. ... You look like a c**t, so you ain't having it," adding that his phone contained sensitive "journalist material" regarding "vulnerable girls."

Alisdair Williamson, Robinson's lawyer, emphasized during the trial that Robinson "was stopped unlawfully, detained unlawfully for 40 minutes, and asked questions that were something to do with his political beliefs."

Judge Goozee evidently agreed, finding on Tuesday that the stop did not appear motivated by any genuine suspicion of terrorism but rather by Robinson's beliefs, which altogether qualify under the law as a protected characteristic. The judge also took issue with the police officers' apparent selective amnesia regarding the incident and credibility.

Goozee said in his ruling, "I cannot put out of my mind that it was actually what you stood for and your beliefs that acted as the principle reason for the stop," the Guardian reported.

"I cannot convict you," the judge added.

In addition to questioning what happens now to the counterterrorism officers who unlawfully targeted him, Robinson thanked Elon Musk after the trial, stating, "I'm forever grateful. If you didn't step in to fund my legal fight for this, then I'd probably be in jail. So today, free speech won!"

Elon Musk responded, "Thank you for raising the flag of England whilst so many cowards cowered."

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Elon Musk may be helping Tommy Robinson, prompting leftist British lawmaker to demand MI5 investigation



The British establishment has long sought to put Tommy Robinson away. The independent journalist has, after all, spent decades raising hell about the fallout of mass migration, the detachment of British elites, the failure of multiculturalism in England, the threats posed by radical Islam, and the cover-up of the Pakistani rape-gang scandal.

Once again, Robinson is facing the prospect of prison; however, this time around, the world's richest man appears to be in his corner.

On July 28, 2024 — a day after organizing a political rally slightly smaller than the historic, 100,000-strong "Unite the Kingdom" march that he led on Sept. 13 of this year — Robinson was detained by Kent police under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act while attempting to travel to Spain, where he now lives.

Robinson was charged with "frustrating" police's counterterrorism powers by allegedly refusing to give them access to his phone, which police confiscated at the time of his detention, Sky News reported.

Under the Terrorism Act, detainees are required to provide law enforcement with access to their mobile device.

Robinson allegedly told police, "Not a chance, bruv. ... You look like a c**t, so you ain't having it," adding that his phone contained sensitive "journalist material" regarding "vulnerable girls."

In a video statement on Monday, Robinson said, "Just imagine that I am facing terrorism charges under terrorism legislation because I didn't want to give the state my sources of information as a journalist — and not one single journalist has commented on that in the U.K."

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Mitchell Thorogood, the arresting officer who apparently recognized Robinson ahead of pulling Robinson over, told the Westminster magistrate's court this week that he stopped Robinson as he attempted to enter the Channel Tunnel in a friend's car partly because the vehicle was not Robinson's, the BBC reported.

Thorogood suggested further that he pulled Robinson over because he thought it "unusual" for someone to drive a luxury car alone from Britain to Spain.

'It's an attack against me based on my political view, nothing else.'

Sky News indicated that Alisdair Williamson, Robinson's lawyer, characterized the counterterror stop as a "fishing expedition," and told the court that Robinson was targeted based to a "significant degree on a protected characteristic," namely his right-wing political views.

"We say it is obvious," Williamson said. "He was stopped unlawfully, detained unlawfully for 40 minutes, and asked questions that were something to do with his political beliefs."

Robinson told reporters outside the courthouse this week that the arresting officer "absolutely did not follow his protocol, did not follow the law. This is a total abuse of the legal system. It's an attack against me based on my political view, nothing else. There was no suspicion of terrorism, no suspicion of a crime. ... I'm now in court for being Tommy Robinson."

Jo Morris, the prosecutor in the case, claimed that the officer was justified in questioning Robinson on account of his "notoriety for associating with far-right activists."

If convicted, Robinson — who has pleaded not guilty and is presently in Israel at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's invitation — could face several months in prison and/or receive a $3,355.80 fine. The trial is set to conclude on Nov. 4.

Robinson claimed on Monday that Elon Musk was financially helping with his legal defense.

The beleaguered journalist's team claimed in a statement earlier this year that Musk was providing support for Robinson in this case as well as for his unsuccessful legal challenge earlier this year over his prolonged solitary confinement in prison.

"Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth? He should be freed and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell," Musk tweeted on January 1. Four days later, he tweeted, "Once again: FREE TOMMY ROBINSON NOW."

Blaze News has reached out to Robinson and Musk for comment.

Daisy Cooper, a leftist lawmaker who serves as deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in parliament, demanded on Wednesday that MI5, the United Kingdom's domestic counterintelligence and security agency, to investigate Musk, even though the Guardian indicated that Musk has yet to provide them with confirmation that he is in fact covering the bill.

"On Monday, the far-right, racist hate-preacher Tommy Robinson, who is currently on trial for allegedly refusing to comply with counterterror police, claimed that his legal costs are being paid by Elon Musk," Cooper said. "It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online every day could be funding someone who stokes far-right extremism on our streets. If this was Putin, the government surely would act."

"So will the prime minister commission the Security Services to assess the threat that Elon Musk poses to our democracy and recommend measures to this house that we can take to stop it?" Cooper said to Britain's liberal prime minister, Keir Starmer.

"I can tell her we do look across the board at threats to our democracy and must continue to do so," Starmer replied, according to the National. "I won't comment on the particular case given the state of legal proceedings."

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In an age of madness, the unbreakable spirit of Katie Hopkins soars



In an age of madness, we need fearless people. The United Kingdom, a country that has slowly slipped into authoritarianism, has found a maverick in British comedian and political commentator Katie Hopkins. Her unapologetic truth-telling and hilarious politically incorrect jokes have gotten her deported from Australia, detained in Africa, threatened with jail time in England, and nearly beheaded by jihadi terrorists. But Katie remains unbowed.

“I choose all of it and more. If I’m arrested when I return home, please know I choose it because this is the time, and we will be dragged through more coals, but this is the time to be alive," she says.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” Katie shared the wildest stories from her extraordinary life and explained why she refuses to stay silent.

South Africa, 2018

After realizing that the genocide of white South African farmers at the hands of black gangs was going unreported, Katie did what most would never even consider: She moved to South Africa and lived on white farms for three months.

With a trustworthy camera and security crew, Katie filmed a documentary capturing the truth about the horrendous plight of white farmers in South Africa — a place she says is a far cry from the “multicultural glory pot” the media and global governments pretend it is.

“At night in South Africa on white farms is where the monsters come,” she tells Glenn.

“Gangs of black men armed with weapons that were laid down by whites during the time of apartheid” come to torture and kill white farmers and their families in ways Katie says are too barbaric to describe. The entire “targeted campaign” is “aided and abetted by black police forces.”

Although she entered the country “securely and secretly,” a month into her stay, Katie began releasing the documentary footage. “Because I was determined to be heard,” she says. The African National Congress, privy to her whereabouts and purpose, then began “chasing” her as she traveled between farms.

“By the time I went back to the airport, the ANC had caught up with me,” she tells Glenn.

When she tried to board the plane back home, she found that her passport had been flagged. Airport officials confiscated it and detained Katie. Knowing that if she was taken to a South African jail, she would never come out again, Katie’s security detail was prepared to “open fire on the South African police.”

But luck or divine providence was in her favor that day. The police chief was off duty, and Katie was eventually allowed to board the plane and return home.

Australia, 2021

In 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Katie was granted a special visa exemption to appear as a contestant on the reality TV show “Big Brother VIP.” Upon arrival in Sydney, she was placed in mandatory 14-day quarantine in accordance with the country’s lockdown mandates.

They sent “Australian military men to get me off the plane to put me in a quarantine prison for 14 days,” she says.

The rules enforced upon her were beyond severe: “I was not allowed a key. I was not allowed to touch the front door of my hotel room. I was not allowed to come out for food,” she tells Glenn.

“When they delivered the food, they would knock on the door. I was given a little egg timer. ... I had to turn the egg timer, wait six seconds (because obviously COVID would know), and then I was allowed to go to the door to get my food.”

Three days into her quarantine, Katie had reached her limit. She went “full-blooming Winston Churchill mode” and livestreamed a YouTube video to 3 million viewers, calling for the Australian people “to rise” up against the country’s COVID tyranny.

Being a comedian, Katie joked, “I am going to strip myself naked. I’m going to cover myself in vegetable oil, and I’m going to make a run down the 29th floor, and I’m going to grab a member of that military, and I’m going to drag him into my room, and I’m going to do terrible things to him."

Even though no such thing happened, major media outlets, including Al Jazeera, CNN, and BBC, reported that Katie indeed violated a military officer.

“Within a moment, my life went very dark indeed. So they turned off the water, the lights, no more food,” she says, adding that the Australian government then denied having issued her a travel visa, framing her as “an illegal immigrant.”

“Eventually two minibus full of men came, rounded me up, put me in the back of a white van, took me to the airport, and walked me onto the plane,” she recounts, noting that her passport now has a giant red “DEPORTED” stamp on it.

But the craziest part came next. After her deportation, Katie went to a tattoo shop and had the red deported stamp tattooed on her rear end. “And then I sent the picture of my ass to the deputy prime minister of Australia,” she laughs.

To hear more of Katie’s wild tales and her take on the Pakistani rape gangs in the U.K., Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Donald Trump, and other topics, watch the full interview above.

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Patriots flood London streets for Unite the Kingdom festival: 'Cultural revolution has begun'



Patriots in London gathered Saturday for a historic march organized by British independent journalist Tommy Robinson.

Authorities estimated that the crowd, which flooded the blocks surrounding Whitehall, included roughly 100,000 individuals. Yet Robinson and other attendees of "Unite the Kingdom" placed those estimates in the millions.

'The despicable traitor UK Prime Minister Slippery Starmer and virtually all of the corrupted regime media are lying about the Uniting the Kingdom rally.'

"We asked: 'where are the men of England?'" Robinson wrote in a social media post the day after the festival. "And instead of only the men of England. The men, women, even their children, from all four corners of the UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the list goes on, came calling, in their millions."

Robinson declared that "a cultural revolution has begun."

"The liberal elite and legacy media have labelled, everyone, 'far right,' for simply voicing an opinion that doesn't fit theirs," Robinson said. "Those labels don't wash anymore, they massively overplayed their hands and exposed themselves. Millions of us in London yesterday. United as one."

American podcaster Dan Keith stated, "The [sheer] weight of this massive crowd in London protesting their government and celebrating free speech is unbelievable with @TRobinsonNewEra and friends."

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The legacy media labeled the gathering a far-right anti-immigration protest, highlighting roughly two dozen arrests. The Metropolitan Police accused the Unite the Kingdom attendees of "significant aggression," but those on the ground rejected those assertions.

"The despicable traitor U.K. Prime Minister Slippery Starmer and virtually all of the corrupted regime media are lying about the Uniting the Kingdom rally," journalist Dan Wootton, who was on the ground reporting on the march, told Blaze News. "I broadcast the entire day. All six hours on the Outspoken YouTube."

"It was a patriotic celebration of love designed to take back our country, with a special appearance from Elon Musk, who made a plea to save our Disunited Kingdom," Wootton continued. "They've even lied about the numbers in attendance, with police claiming 110,000 when over 1 million were there. Luckily with the rise of the independent media here, patriots are no longer prepared to be gaslit."

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Carl Benjamin, a political commentator who spoke at Saturday's gathering, previously told Blaze News, "Today's Unite the Kingdom rally shows the scale of the discontent in Britain against not just the current government, but the entire system itself. The scale of the rally shows that people are tired of being treated as second-class citizens in their own country."

"There was no 'significant aggression,' just a couple of trivial skirmishes at the fringes of the events which came to nothing," Benjamin continued. "The entire day had the atmosphere of a festival, very family-friendly, and a powerful demonstration of patriotism."

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Unite the kingdom: Tommy Robinson leads historic 100,000-strong march to save Britain



Over 100,000 demonstrators packed the streets of London on Saturday afternoon for a "Unite the Kingdom" march led by British independent journalist Tommy Robinson.

The march, featuring people holding the English flag aloft, comes as local councils across the United Kingdom are taking down English flags flown by Britons. Some politicians are calling the mere flying of the English flag a rallying point for "hate."

'You either fight back, or you die.'

Robinson live-streamed his festival on X, which opened with a prayer and featured musical performances, as well as speeches from actor Laurence Fox, Rebel News journalist Ezra Levant, and activist Sammy Woodhouse. His supporters packed the blocks around Whitehall, waving the Union flag of Britain and the red and white St. George's Cross of England. Some in the audience around the stage held photographs of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated earlier this week.

"This is the biggest demonstration in Britain's history!" Robinson told the crowd. "This is your community. These are your brothers and your sisters. We today are united. Today is the spark of a cultural revolution in Great Britain."

"They've managed to silence us for 20 years with labels: racist, Islamophobe, far-right. They don't work anymore," Robinson declared. "The silent majority will be silent no longer."

He slammed the "globalist revolution" for attacking the family, Christianity, and opening the borders.

Robinson connected Elon Musk to speak to the attendees via video chat. He thanked the billionaire for supporting freedom of speech by purchasing X.

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Laurence Fox, Kate Hopkins, and Tommy Robinson attend the Unite The Kingdom rally on September 13, 2025 in London, England. Photo by Ben Montgomery/Getty Images

"What I see happening is a destruction of Britain," Musk stated. "The government has failed in its duty to protect its citizens, which is a fundamental duty of government."

Musk had a message for those in the "reasonable center," who "ordinarily wouldn't get involved in politics."

"Look carefully around and say, 'If this continues, what world will you be living in?'" he said. "If this continues, that violence is going to come to you. You will have no choice."

"You either fight back, or you die," Muck concluded.

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A counterprotest, "March Against Fascism," formed nearby, organized by the Stand Up To Racism group. Those demonstrators held up signs reading, "Oppose Tommy Robinson. Stop fascists & the far right."

Left-wing media outlets labeled Robinson's march as an anti-immigration protest.

Metropolitan Police claimed that the crowd was "too big to fit into Whitehall."

The deparment further added, "We have deployed additional officers with protective equipment in multiple locations, supported by police horses, to deal with the disorder," via a social media post.

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