Excellent piece about @Freedom_in_Arts by co- founder @RosieKayK2CO and @Eve_Barlow about the disaster in the music industry. telegraph.co.uk/gift/3e2c702…

Great to @RosieKayK2CO defending both freedom in the arts and saying the music industry has had a wake up call today on Free Speech Nation with @joshxhowie. Thank you for having us on!

Stay silent – you're complicit. Speak – you'd better say the right thing. Refuse – we'll wreck your career. Ed Sheeran just met the ‘be kind’ cult, which only work works one way. Welcome to the ‘Free Palestine’, ‘trans women are women’ ‘refugees welcome’ progressive left, Ed.

"I never had that fear because I was an absolute nobody in entertainment." Intel Lady (@intel_lady) exposes the silent support she gets from mainstream celebrities who are terrified to publicly challenge woke cultural trends or joke about modern ideologies.

A Southampton man has been found guilty on four counts of blackmail after a campaign to force venues to cancel performances by Katie Hopkins. This was not simply protest. A jury found it crossed into criminal conduct. 1/8

😊 $ATM are indeed at a 'TURNING POINT' for patient holders👍 ✅#ATM Revenue +34% to £30.1m ✅Gross profit up to £7.7m (FY25: £3m) ✅Operating loss: improved to £2.6m (FY25: loss of £3.9m) ✅Operating Cash Flow: increased by £8.7m to £4.7m (FY25: loss £4m)

Sweden got rich under laissez-faire and nearly wrecked itself trying to forget it. Between 1870 and 1970, Sweden ran one of the freest economies in Europe: low taxes, open trade, sound money, and entrepreneurs like the Wallenbergs and Ingvar Kamprad building world-class firms. By 1970 Sweden ranked fourth in OECD per capita income. Then the social democrats decided prosperity was automatic and started spending it. You know what happened next if you understand incentives. Government spending blew past 60 percent of GDP by the late 1980s. Marginal tax rates crossed 85 percent. In 1976 Astrid Lindgren, the children's author, calculated her effective marginal rate at 102 percent and wrote a satirical fairy tale about it in Expressen. She paid the state more than she earned. Not a single new net private-sector job appeared between 1950 and 1990. Every job added came from the public payroll. Capital fled, IKEA's ownership moved offshore, and by 1993 Sweden had slid to roughly 14th in the OECD income rankings. The 1991-93 crisis forced honesty. The krona collapsed, interest rates briefly hit 500 percent, and the political class ran out of other people's money in real time. What followed was one of the sharpest market-oriented turnarounds in modern history. Carl Bildt's government introduced universal school vouchers in 1992, letting for-profit schools compete for every student. Sweden partially privatized pensions in 1998 with individual investment accounts. It deregulated taxis, rail, telecom, postal services, and electricity. It abolished the inheritance tax in 2004 and the wealth tax in 2007. Corporate tax fell from 52 percent to 20.6 percent. Spending dropped nearly 20 points of GDP. Notice what you never hear from the "democratic socialism" crowd: Sweden's welfare state produced stagnation. Its recovery came from cutting, privatizing, and deregulating. Bernie Sanders praises a country that killed its estate tax while he campaigns to raise yours. The lesson free market economists have taught for a century holds here perfectly. Wealth comes from capital accumulation and voluntary exchange. Redistribution consumes it. Sweden ran the experiment twice, in both directions, on live television. The Swedes learned. The question is whether you will before your own government runs the same experiment.

As our latest run of @joelycett & Friends shows comes to an end, we thought we’d look back at some photos of our favourite moments. It’s been a joy & a privilege to host Joe’s return to stand up, and we’ve loved every second of it.

A new progressive mafia rules Britain’s arts world by fear telegraph.co.uk/gift/391aac6…

Six charts to mark “Brexit at 10” By popular demand, I've turned my thread of posts into a blog... 🤓 julianhjessop.substack.com/p…

“the cultural elite has become pathologically nonchalant about the liberty and safety of women and Jews. It is obscene.” 🫥🫥🫥

Now live: Mark Tughan’s full speech from the @Freedom_in_Arts parliamentary launch of The New Boycott Crisis and the Art Beyond Boycott Toolkit. “In comedy, if you don’t take risks, it gets dull, it gets safe, it gets a bit boring.”

Glee clubs sign up to free-speech charter | 'People are tired of tedious cancellations' says its boss ift.tt/hq0yRG1

“It’s not the first time in history artists have faced oppression and it won’t be the last. We should support each other, come together and defend our shared space, our territory, the place where imagination can roam free. Because if they come for one of us they will eventually come for all. “ On Monday 26/4/26 I gave a speech at the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster to help launch toolkit.freedominthearts.com… Please follow/donate to @Freedom_in_Arts they are doing VITAL work for all of us.”