The good days will return.

It pains me to respond to the attention seeking @MatthewStadlen .... But he's tried to orchestrate yet another pile-on and truth matters. The exchange with him was at 1am on Monday night. At that time we were relying on sparse footage and interpreting media descriptions. The official figures were eventually released, based on accurate assessments, after dawn the next day. I was ACUTELY aware that this disorder would be used (just as Southport was) by the government to introduce more powers of control. I could see Stadlen priming viewers at home to accept incoming restrictions. Language matters. Too many people in news media reach for hyperbole to manipulate you - never more so than when an authoritarian government is waiting to pounce. Facts that emerged the next day: 15 police officers injured. 4 residential properties damaged by fire. 3 residents evacuated from burning homes. Several vehicles burned. All unacceptable hooliganism, stupidity and chaos. Life-changing for some involved. But when I think of 'riots' I call to mind Brixton in 1981 in which 100s of police and civilians were hospitalised. Toxteth, 1981, in which one person died, more than £10million of property was damaged and 100s were injured. The Poll Tax riots in 1990 saw 200,000 people in Trafalgar square; 100s of people injured and arrested. Tottenham, 2011, The 'Mark Duggan' riots - FIVE people died, 1000s were arrested and damage reached roughly £200 million. 2024: Southport, 1000s of arrests and some high-profile jail-sentences including Lucy Connolly for commenting online. Those are riots. In 2026, a hot day is an "emergency," feeling a bit down is "depression;" rain is a "flood risk" and being tired is "burnt out." In my view, the British people should be calmly withdrawing their labour and taking to the streets in their millions right now to force political change, but too many are unwilling to get off the sofa. It was obvious that this disorder would be used by the government to introduce more powers of control over free speech so on Monday,'s show, I was torn between relaying the unrest and attempting to moderate the hysteria. But I did let Stadlen wind me up and that was unusual on my part. On the issue of greater social media restrictions I was proven right within 24 hours. Now let's look at who Matthew Stadlen really is.... Have you ever wondered why a grown man would spend so much time doing unpaid media work, even going to the time and effort of clipping and promoting my counter-narrative views on social media at every opportunity? I have zero evidence that he is anything other than a trust-fund boy who lives in a big London house and likes being on TV. He may just be the product of his rarified upbringing. But if you were to require a malleable asset to nudge the Establishment dial, his type would certainly fit the bill: St Paul's and Trinity College educated with a father, Sir Nicholas Stadlen who was a High Court Judge. His uncle Godfrey Stadlen was a very senior Home Office civil servant involved in the administrative machinery of UK immigration policy. His paternal Grandparents were Central European émigré intellectuals who brought Marxist, anti-fascist and Continental philosophical traditions to Britain. His grandmother's work and participation in intellectual circles, especially contributed to debates on Marxism and political theory. Frankly, The Stadlen family sits in the upper institutional ecosystem of Britain through law and elite education, not to mention Matthew's hard-to-define media career... So when he is dead-set on making you think a certain way, take a breath, think harder and be extremely wary.

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