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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Also, "MailOnline tracked down Robinson's location after he posted a video of himself in the hotel's gym". He wanted privacy and security but couldn't resist showing off his lifestyle and disregard for the court. Hubris.
"Journalists were given an escort out of the courtroom by security after one of them was threatened inside the court by one of [Tommy] Robinson’s supporters. The man was ejected from the press gallery and later from the courtroom" theguardian.com/uk-news/2026… nitter.cf/daveatherton/status/21…
I've just been ejected from Court Number 2 where Tommy @TRobinsonNewEra is expecting his verdict.
I sat in the press section & they asked me to move on. I suggested only state approved journalists are allowed? A little shit from MSM said yes.
I said, "Like the Soviet Union & NAZI Germany?"
Atherton isn't just some online outlier - he gets regular fringe-right media appearances and is often photographed about London with figures who either represent or are allied with Reform UK, including Nigel Farage's associate Lois Perry.
Richard Bartholomew retweeted
As long as you have a press card you shouldn't have been asked to move as per the revised 2026 court/media protocol
You did have your press card with you, yes?
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
When you are totally owned by Richard Holden then you have lost.
Farage broadcast his lies, on a live presser, on GB News, in the Telegraph
And then is called out by numerous MPs with reality and fact
If you are public figure directing a political movement while on the run from an arrest warrant after skipping court (not to mention staying in a luxury resort in Cyprus two years after declaring bankruptcy), then you do not really have a reasonable expectation of privacy
Robinson's justification defence was incoherent - he said he "panicked" and was "scared" by the Mail exposé, but also that he had not known that posting photographs of the homes of journalists would similarly put them "in fear". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2d…
Diana Athill compares post-war Britain to when she was writing 11 years ago, in 2015: "During those 'dreary' years we got so used to simple, material things getting better that their getting worse now seems to be against nature." bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r4by…
Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Six years ago, Yaxley Lennon harassed Byline writers Mike Stuchbery and Tim Fenton so badly that they eventually left the country. (He also promised to pay me a visit!)
Anyone condoning these kinds of tactics doesn't believe in a free press. It's a license for thuggery.
Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing journalists: 'He said he had "wanted to find the journalists" to "put pressure on them". But he told the jury he had not known they were "in fear."' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2d…
The only person who called Dougie Smith "Dr No" is Nadine Dorries, as a device to avoid possible libel difficulties. I suspect she didn't use the more obvious "Blofeld" because it would have been tactless given that her literary agent is Piers Blofeld.
Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Everytime I watch a classic horror film I think. Why isnt this 8 hours long with a cliffhanger every hour?
Politicians who crow about police investigations should be treated with scorn by the public and by the authorities. And in this instance there is no sign that any investigation has even been launched. nitter.cf/TiceRichard/status/211…
Two police forces, Met Police and Hampshire Police, are investigating ITV and their reporters for possible criminal offences against Reform UK
Scrutiny is fine, but journalists don’t get free pass to break the law
They will have to answer to the police, courts and Electoral Commission
thetimes.com/article/ab0fafc…
