Englishman, Writer, Lawyer, Cantab. Co-author of the @asi Freedom of Speech Bill (2026). Redrafting our constitution to fit our people, at: @ReinersProject.

Lincolnshire, England
Joined November 2018
Michael Reiners retweeted
Just because the UK Online Safety Act doesn't work against 4chan doesn't mean it isn't working against everybody else. Foreign threats chill American speech. A shield law like the GRANITE Act is needed to preserve Americans' First Amendment rights online.
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The British state has functionally outlawed being an Englishman in public, framed as combatting anti social behaviour. Ironically, it almost guarantees a further withdrawal from social behaviour. I note that there are no defences of: -joie de vivre -savoir faire As such, we might now expect rehabilitative orders and sentences of up to 2 years for being outdoors, pint in hand, and attempting to have a chat with a stranger (being an Englishman). You can all but guarantee these powers will be abused. On 4th October 2026 we saw abuse of similar in Gosport; Section 34 dispersal orders (created by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014) gives the police and PCSOs the power to direct individuals to leave a designated area for up to 48 hours – designed for vagrants, rough sleepers and drunks/crackheads in public spaces. In Gosport, those powers were applied to the entirety of the area (population 82,000). Essentially giving police the power to move an entire town along, from their own residences. We haven’t seen such an abuse of legislation beyond its intended purpose since the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 – designed to contain remote airport and hospital disease outbreaks – was used to place the entirety of Britain under house arrest (lockdown, of 2020).
🚨 NEW: Respect Orders are now live across England and Wales People who cause harassment, alarm or distress to others can receive bans from town centres, anger management courses or unlimited fines Anyone who breaches an Order can be arrested and jailed for up to 2 years
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This has also functionally outlawed being an Irishman, Scotsman, or God fearing Welshman in public, by the same means as above*
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Michael Reiners retweeted
3 years ago today, the Online Safety Act 2023 received Royal Assent. A few months earlier, the UK Home Office asked me how my clients intended to comply. I told them, verbatim, they'd need to land ground troops. The UK has not invaded, and my clients are still speaking freely.
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The 4Chan case demonstrates that all it requires is for one nation to robustly protect the freedom to speak; in this case the US. That is what is required for the internet to persist, and remain accessible by VPN to the rest of the world. Domestic regulators such as Britain’s Ofcom, who have aspirations of destroying the internet, its contents and shooting their own population in the foot, are powerless to stop this. We will see precisely the same overreach we saw here in the realm of AI – I would not be surprised if legislation was tabled to provide Ofcom specific powers in this realm before Burnham leaves office. Enclosed, a House of Commons library research briefing from 2 weeks ago, contemplating precisely that fate, and stating it has been the plan since the Sunak government for the super-regulator to eventually take on this task: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
"The 4chan case has become the clearest test of how far a UK regulator can reach across borders." tl;dr the UK wrote a law aimed at American companies, but didn't bother to look up American law. The UK's threats targeting Americans continue. gadgetreview.com/ofcoms-war-…
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Michael Reiners retweeted
Reactionary Reading Law (@LawReading) offers a pleasant, but appropriately cautious review of my Oblivion Act (2026) proposal - which suggests rolling repeal of all legislation (and subordinate legislation) since 1900, with the burden on ministers & parliament to expressly retain it. His review of this proposal raises a key issue with it; lack of competency in government. I am in agreement that specialist sectors, Energy for one, would certainly need expertise not currently found within ministers or parliament at large. Comically, the weakness of having an inexperienced parliament presents the biggest problem to unravelling the sum of its past deeds. An inverted burden might be used for protected infrastructure & services, though, ministerial fiefdoms being what they are, there will be a fight to expand what is considered “essential” (in the manner Lockdown categorised labour/industries) if such a bill were enacted. The offering seeks to advance the conversation around wide-ranging repeals; the imagination of the reformer need not be a slave to caution (at least not entirely). You can read @LawReading’s review, here, for which I’m grateful; reactionaryreadinglaw.substa…
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Michael Reiners retweeted
The Oblivion Act: A wide ‘Great Repeal Act’ It is a draft bill to force the permanant state to justify the laws it actually uses, and disposes en masse of the rest. A 'wide' approach to a 'Great Repeal Act', in which Parliament merely saves what law remains necessary, useful, and in the national interest. In @ReinersProject: reiners.org.uk/the-oblivion-…
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Michael Reiners retweeted
When Lucy Powell MP introduced her members bill in 2018, seeking to ban private Facebook groups for political purposes, she relied on Hope Not Hate (HNH) to demonstrate harm & justify this measure. Her reliance on this organisation is recorded in Hansard, here: hansard.parliament.uk/common… More recently, in 2022, Hope Not Hate actively attempted to steer the Online Safety Act toward becoming a political censorship tool. It became one, and even @NadineDorries - who introduced the bill - suggests it now requires repeal. Hope Not Hate manufactures the ‘harm’ and the parliamentary Labour Party pushes for ‘solutions’ in the form of censorial state powers. This charity has worked in tandem with Labour for decades, smearing their opponents to assist campaigning. In June, their limited company arm produced campaign material for @andyburnham, distributed in the Makerfield by-election [enclosed, right]. In 2022, Hope Not Hate employee Lion Velleman gave evidence to parliament regarding the Online Safety Act; he named specific right leaning pundits who should be sanctioned and penalised by the bill, once implemented. Vellemen was convicted of child sexual offences early in 2026 [BBC’s report, enclosed left image], a fact HNH have been keen to hide. His comments are recorded in Hansard, here: hansard.parliament.uk/common…
Quintessentially Powell. Lucy Powell MP, now the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, put forward a motion for consideration of a bill in 2018 banning private Facebook groups, claiming that right wing groups were not being prosecuted as much as she would like. Naturally, she cited Hope Not Hate as her source in Hansard – a functional arm of the Labour party: hansard.parliament.uk/common… The desire to restrict speech & association is palpable. It is not new, and those calling for it have not gained a more sophisticated understanding of the internet in the decade since this. Legislators, and the government, are choosing to see harm where harm is not there. When that proves inadequate, harms may be outright invented by said government.
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Michael Reiners retweeted
A former Hope Not Hate director, and a current director, are now due to become key members of Burnham’s team in No.10. The only way a future government can meaningfully disable organisations like this, who delight in censorship and ruination, is by taking the legislative and regulatory tools which they wield against ordinary people away from them - this would also neutralise the activists to whom they outsource harm. That is what the @asi Freedom of Speech Bill does with aplomb, de-ranging their attacks, and rendering them meaningless (the full bill is linked below) The following extract is from my conversation on the subject of HNH, with @NewCultureForum
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Michael Reiners retweeted
On anonymity as an essential protection against state fiat in Britain: The use of Anonymity/Pseudonymity is a requirement for legitimately free expression within Britain’s dystopian speech landscape. It has proven essential to advance the National conversation - and ‘anons’ from @maxtempers to @kunley_drukpa have been instrumental in this. There are tiers to Britain’s speech dystopia: The highest threshold being The criminal law, with which Ms Connolly was forcibly acquainted with by our state (in particular AG Richard Hermer, who personally signed off on the matter). Second, the regulatory/employment consequences. Third, attempts at social ‘cancellation’, doxxing, reputational destruction and functional defamation (dealt in by NGO’s like Hope Not Hate, et al). These teirs await all who speak frankly and with impact about the reality of 2026 Britain, and aim to contain any figures deemed a threat to the permanent-centrism of the Blairite regime. It stifles and prevents the necessary discussions on demography, for example, which our nation must have earnestly & openly - and fast. More generally, in digital anonymity, ordinary human passions play out naturally, it is the Englishman’s sole refuge from our social-engineering-prone state. Upwards of 15,000 people are convicted annually under a.4, 4a, 5 and Part III S.19 of the Public Order Act 1986 alone. These are all speech/expression offences, and these are palpably tyrannic numbers. They convicted Ms Connolly of the latter (s.19, which in prior years was seldom used). This was due to an advised plea of guilt - over a single tweet on an identifiable account. It has taken a leveraged buyout of Twitter (Now X) by @elonmusk in 2022 to even have this kind of expression in Britain. It stands as the only remaining functionally ‘social’ social media site. It is a grave error to allow some individuals’ speech as more worthy of freedom than others - that is precisely how the concept of hate speech arose and began to corrode our ability to speak in the first place. With that said, there remains an ironclad rule in Britain today - Connolly’s post alludes to it: “It’s not what you say, it’s who you say it as”
It’s always anonymous accounts.
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Michael Reiners retweeted
On HNH, and the exploitable weakness of the modern Englishman - his sheer squeamishness: The instinctual squeamishness of the British public is one of its key weaknesses, one it must overcome to survive. Hope not hate’s entire playbook is to exploit this part of his nature. If you create a smell around someone, baseless or not, the British will remember forever - irrespective of whether it is true. This is now reflected in our automated hiring and firing procedures, it is a feature of our hostile criminal speech law, regulatory law for the professionally qualified, and shapes how the entirety of Westminster and its associated associated press/policy outfits work & operate. From Restore to Policy Exchange , by way of Reform UK (@reformparty_uk ), New Culture Forum and the Prosperity Institute (@Prosperity_Inst). All have ostracised sensible, capable people due to HNH. Hope Not Hate does not need to explicitly harm anyone - the general terror & squeamishness of the ordinary man will do that for them. All they need is to provide the stink/a little libel. The British are a poor people (average median salary hovering around 30k GBP, laughable to the Anglosphere/US), thus, they have no response to such libel or quiet subterfuge in the courts - not that they would help, being squeamish also. Hope not hate rely on this, and will gladly call you everything from a fascist to a pedophile to ensure you are immobilised. It doesn’t need to be true to be effective in Britain, it just needs to come from an NGO to feel legitimate - even if that NGO is fundamentally illegitimate to those in the know. Besides the legislative solutions set out here Reiners.org.uk/bills , Britain must learn ignore this variety of nonsense. The ideal first move would’ve been dispose of this organisation through crowd funded group-litigation - however, we are a poor country, and have bad political sensibilities. The simpler, cheapest solution is as so: The Englishman must overcome his natural squeamishness - or perish.
The annual anti-white hysteria report is out from Hope Not Hate. Reform have bent over backwards to appease HnH, deselecting councillors according to their reports and appointing diversity hires. Yet despite this, Farage and co are the main focus of their work. You can’t appease the left except by accepting the total destruction of our people. There is nothing to be gained from appeasement or apology.
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Michael Reiners retweeted
From my interview with @Harry_pitt and @cfdownes_ for @NewCultureForum. Here we discuss the mode of operation of ‘Hope Not Hate’, who operate above the law & doxx, defame & are unwittingly uniting the British right against a common enemy. Watch here: youtu.be/PGNh8uG3z5s?si=QYDE…
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Michael Reiners retweeted
Seconded and unequivocally, so
If you haven’t followed @DamianPudner already; an advisable move for your Sunday!
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