The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist after she made hurtful remarks about men’s mental health.

It was a single comment using language that mimicked hers and yet Fox, a straight white bloke occupying the lowest tier in the Oppression Olympics, deserved the full witch-burning treatment. There is no forgiveness in a world run by social justice because the punishment is designed for the person – not the crime.

Forget looking for balanced reporting.

What’s not to love about this situation for the press? Fox gave them 48 hours of monetised click-bait heaven and the removal of a powerful voice that threatened their comfy ideological consensus. Bargain.

The flames of outrage quickly spread from Fox’s GB News desk to the host of the show in question, Dan Wootton, and fellow presenter Calvin Robinson.

This swift culling has frightened the remaining presenters into a pact of silence while others are theatrically championing freedom of speech so long as it fits within the rules laid out by people and organisations that are allergic to the concept. Those who remain at GB News are effectively pacing along the bars of a prison cell.

For those who think they will remain safe by pandering to the narrative, be warned – Mark Steyn was axed for speaking the truth about Covid vaccine injuries before it was safe to do so. He was deleted from the conversation for one of the most virtuous public service tasks imaginable by a vindictive and partisan media regulator.

If Mark Steyn can be cancelled for helping victims of Big Pharma, anybody can be cancelled for any reason at any time.

You are safe for as long as your presence on the screen keeps the centre-right calm and preoccupied. At this point, you are a distraction – an ad playing before the scary movie begins. Do not imagine that you will be allowed to achieve any kind of influential position. It serves the Left better to cut down conservative commentators in messy public scandals and in doing so, soil the image of the entire cause. Whether you like GB News is irrelevant, the lesson applies to all conservative news outlets.

The Left play long games, and this is one of them.

Laurence Fox did not go quietly into the night as was intended because his power and his platform are not based on GB News. He has accumulated power outside the reach of regulators, especially when backed by the political machine of the Reclaim Party.

Being fearless in the world of politics is a dangerous game.

Last night we heard that Laurence Fox had been arrested in his home. While his mates at GB News languish in metaphoric jail cells, he inhabits a tangible one. According to sources, he is being held under suspicion for ‘conspiring to damage Ulez cameras’. These are the newly erected devices used to fine citizens for driving around their home suburbs in a worst-case dystopian nightmare dreamt up by car-hating bicycle riders.

In true Fox style, he sat on his couch in a Churchillian fashion, filming police as they searched his home while calmly smoking a cigar. Some joked that there were more police in Fox’s house than patrolling the British shoreline where hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants break the law at the behest of criminal gangs and terror cells.

His subsequent arrest followed comments made on a recent podcast with Maajid Nawaz called Warrior Creed during which Fox said, ‘I encourage them [the people nicknamed Blade Runners] to tear down every single camera there is and I will be joining them to tear down cameras as well, because I’m one of those people that puts my money where my mouth is.’

It’s a bizarre situation.

The Blade Runners are engaging in civil disobedience against what many feel is an unlawful infringement on basic human liberties.

They are condemned, many speculate, because the government is set to make a lot of money out of the Ulez scheme, up to £300 million in the first year.

That same government praises and often endorses civil disobedience and damage to public property when it is caused by a range of ‘green’ movements in the UK, including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil. These protests endorse the establishment of even more coercive ‘Net Zero’ policies. Their civil disobedience is akin to a ‘social licence’ while Ulez protests represent the withdrawal of public support.

The problem is not the existence of civil disobedience – it is whether or not you are supporting the expanding powers of the State or trying to protect individual citizen freedom.

It is, for lack of a better term, an ideological war for the soul of Western Civilisation which has been corroded by do-gooders, corporate seat-warmers, and cardboard cut-out politicians who aspire to nothing more than a glass of champagne at the big table.

Unlike the Black Lives Matter activists who destroyed public monuments and statues central to the cultural heritage of UK towns, Fox hasn’t touched a Ulez camera. Meanwhile police knelt in the rubble of Western Civilisation, honouring the BLM vandals while assaulting British citizens who tried to protect public property.

‘In London’s knife-ridden capital city where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death with a sword, we have one, two – another three upstairs – going through my house,’ he said. ‘The Ulez “scam” cameras outside of London are a complete scam. There is no scientific evidence. Sadiq Khan rubbished the evidence and had it rewritten to serve his own needs. No one voted for it. This is the bringing in of a surveillance state.’

The pretence of the arrest is “conspiracy to commit criminal damage.”

One can only assume this is related to this week’s interview with @MaajidNawaz, where they discuss ULEZ Blade Runners.

Laurence has not yet done any Blade Running. This is a pre-crime.pic.twitter.com/kYoWcExvjc

— Dcn Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) October 4, 2023

When the people of Germany tore down the Berlin Wall – dismantling it block-by-block, taking sledgehammers to the symbol of communist occupation and unending civil cruelty – the world cheered.

The dismantling of the physical manifestation of a totalitarian state used to be something praised by the Western world.

In the years since 1990, the West has taken on many of these authoritarian ‘vibes’ seeping out of the noxious hivemind festering within the European Union and United Nations. We are overrun with those who seek to control and extort.

Covid’s assigning of ‘ticks’ and ‘crosses’ to human beings via the issuing of ‘health passes’ to signify obedience to government fear-mongering and corporate interest was horrifying but short-lived. The tyranny of Net Zero is a far greater threat as the existential Boogeyman of Global Boiling has no start date, no clearly defined parameters, and a manifestation so vague that any warm day or light drizzle can be used by its preachers and zealots to justify its ‘truth’.

At least in centuries past, charlatan priests went to the trouble of making bleeding statues and accumulating piles of rusted nails – today’s eco-warriors are the laziest religious practitioners in history.

Still, the Net Zero zealots have a metaphoric volcano and they intend to chuck sacrifices into it.

The discussion we need to have – urgently and preferably before any more sacrifices are made – is what we do with governments that impose restrictions, regulations, and taxes that violate our basic understanding of civil liberty? How do we stop these enormously powerful international groups from turning our society into a tightly controlled police state where public policy, written to benefit the profit margins of corporations, can be stopped?

When does it become acceptable to resist unhinged and dangerous government policies? And we better have these discussions before Online Safety and Misinformation and Disinformation laws silence us forever.

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Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.

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