Last night’s assault on Swale House was an attack on free speech. Read my full statement on the events that took place below.

Anything that scares someone as confident and impressive as Hannah should make everyone step back and rethink this mess we’ve somehow got into We need to walk this all back and rethink it Logic, empathy and humanity are not mutually exclusive and are all British values, so we can and must do this

There's something very Bluesky about seeing @stephenkb.bsky.social and @kevinmckenna.co.uk next to each other in my timeline talking not about politics, as one might expect, but two separate sci-fi fandoms.

There is enough evidence of enablement of hate crimes to warrant a full Ofcom investigation into how it is using financial incentives to promote hate, harassment and real-world violence. The first responsibility of the State is to protect its people, and in 2025 that includes online.

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

I'm pretty happy with being #283,586!

I guess if I'm going to use this for work, I may as well use it for me