Gary Warner

They Practise on Him. They Perfect It on Us. Let me tell you how it works in this country. Yesterday a jury convicted Tommy Robinson of harassing two journalists from the Daily Mail. On 16 December he will find out whether he goes back to prison . Ask yourself honestly: if this were anyone else, would it have gone this far? You know the answer. It went this far because it was him. Here is the method. They find a man nobody important will defend. Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, is reported in the Epstein files to have called Robinson “cheap at any price” . In other words, he is disposable. So they make an example of him. They put him on display and say, “Look, we are fair. We go after the far right too.” Then they bring the same machinery down on the Muslim community, harder, longer and far beyond our numbers. That is not balance. That is a Jim Crow for Muslims, with Robinson as the cover story. My position on Robinson is well known. I wish him no good. But don’t be fooled into cheering. When they sharpen the blade on him, they are sharpening it for you. Take Schedule 7. This is a terror law that lets police stop anyone at a UK airport, port or border without any suspicion at all. They can question you for hours and take your phone, and if you refuse to give them your password, they can charge you with a terror offence. One Cambridge University study found that 88% of the people stopped under it at one airport were Muslim (Middle East Eye). For twenty years we said this power was being used on us because of who we are, and nobody listened. Then, in July 2024, police used it on Robinson at the Channel Tunnel. He refused to unlock his phone and was charged with a terror offence. In November 2025 the judge threw the case out. He found that the police had not stopped Robinson because they suspected terrorism. They stopped him because of his political views. A stop made for that reason is against the law, so the charge collapsed (inkl/MEE). Think about that. A court finally admitted what Muslims have said for two decades: this terror power can be used against people for their beliefs. Now take the judges. In 2024, Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson jailed Robinson for 18 months for contempt of court. In 2025 the same judge heard my defamation case against The Spectator, and took a scorched‑earth approach. And is it a coincidence that it came from the very judge who had just jailed the far right’s sacrificial lamb? Then came Filton. In 2024, activists broke into a factory near Bristol belonging to Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms company, and damaged equipment. The jury convicted four of them of criminal damage, not terrorism. But at sentencing, the same judge ruled that their crime had a “terrorism connection”, something the jury was never told was possible. That label made the sentences far longer. Four young people were jailed for more than 26 years between them The same machine, the same names and the same pattern keep returning. When the police, the prosecutors, the terror laws and the judges move in step against whoever is politically convenient, then we need to pay attention to it.