https://x.com/tomhfh/status/2066778048460898535
It's a jarringly disorienting feeling, being told by a set of politicians who did not grow up with youtube, that those of us who did were somehow victims.
That my childhood was so horrific it must now be made illegal. https://t.co/lnMHGr9iv8
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) June 16, 2026
This would be like Maggie Thatcher banning me from playing with my Speccy. Her government didn’t. This literal nanny state. A lot of what is wrong with this country is parents thinking someone else (the government) ought to raise their children.
For us ignorant-across-the-sea people, do we LIKE Tom Harwood?
bobby b, your question made me laugh in recognition, because I immediately knew who you meant by “we” and I knew what you meant by “LIKE”. I do mentally put a little Reddit-style upvote/downvote arrow next to the names of people in the public eye, and the upvotes and downvotes are awarded on political grounds. I will make a virtue of not consulting Wikipedia, only my distinctly fallible memory, which says that we mostly do LIKE Tom Harwood. He used to work for Guido, which is a plus, and then for the Sun which is also a plus, but at some point he has accumulated a couple of downvotes from me for things he has written. I can’t remember what they were, though, just that they are there.
Is anything not to be made illegal in the United Kingdom?
“Everything is illegal in Britain – apart from crime” – Mark Steyn, pointing out that attacking people or their property is often not punished (or even investigated) in Britain – but lots of other things are declared “illegal”.
We may indeed be moving towards “anarcho-tyranny” – where the state does not protect the bodies or goods of people, but, instead, seeks to control their normal lives – forbidding some things (which are in no way a violation of other people or their goods) and forcing people to do other things.
I came across this . Is this similar/going in the same direction as legislation in the UK? Commentators on twitter and elsewhere are saying it’s digital ID in the guise of protecting kids. Yet a Republican House just passed it.
Perhaps unsurprising – in Britain the Online Safety Act was introduced not by some woke leftist but by one time Tory Boris Johnson loyalist and now Reform Party member Nadine Dorries.