We are watching a dangerous shift take place in Britain. Last year alone, over 12,000 people were arrested for social media posts! Let us repeat that again…not for violence, not for threats, but for opinions. The justification? Vague offences like causing “needless anxiety” or posting something deemed “grossly offensive.” Often there are no actual victims in these incidents either. We are not talking about abusive social media posts or a campaign of hatred using social media..just sharing opinions and in today’s example, a meme..
As you will see in this video excerpt, the interviewee Andrew Doyle who is a playwright and political satirist, discusses the case of Darren Brady, an army veteran arrested for retweeting a satirical meme. The meme made a political point. It was not a call to violence. It was not a threat. Yet police handcuffed him because someone claimed it made them feel “anxious”.
(You can watch the arrest itself in the video at the end of this article.)
Mr Doyle continues to explain how narrative control operates. The law is stretched to protect subjective feelings rather than objective harm where the authorities tried to even ban “pub-banter”! The emotion of “anxiety” becomes a weapon. Alleged “offence” becomes a crime, even where there is no victim. Yes, now we don’t even need victims to convict people of crime. And once speech is judged not by intent or truth, but by how strongly someone says they feel, anything can be punished.
Radical woke ideology thrives in this environment because it elevates emotion and subjective opinion above reason and logic. If someone declares distress, institutions respond with enforcement rather than debate. The result is a chilling effect: people self-censor, satire disappears, political critique becomes risky, and public discourse narrows to whatever is safest to say.
This is not about defending hate or incitement. Speech that directly calls for violence or abuse is already rightly restricted. The issue is far broader: ordinary citizens are being policed and punished for commentary, humour, and dissent. When subjective feelings override objective standards, the Establishment gains enormous discretionary power and that power will result in totalitarian control.
The solution is not silence. It begins with awareness. People must recognise the Establishment agenda at work. How they apply control through emotional manipulation and legal ambiguity. We must push back against such an agenda where it undermines free speech, particularly when no hate or violence is involved. A confident population that understands its rights and refuses to outsource moral judgement to bureaucracies is far harder to intimidate. Free societies depend on resilience, not fragility. If we allow anxiety to become law, we surrender reason itself. Click here to read further about how the Establishment has conditioned us to apply its agenda from our childhoods.
There are further steps you can take to educate yourself:
- Do not solely rely on social media to express yourself – it’s a trap waiting for you. Give yourself options.
- Educate yourself on the law and how it’s being weaponised. Follow individuals like the Blackbelt Barrister and Steven Barrett.
- Share this article with one other person – not just on social media – but share specifically with one person you think will get this.
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As someone who has struggled with anxiety for much of my life, it feels deeply troubling to think that someone could be arrested over feelings such as anxiety—particularly in relation to a meme shared online. As has been expressed here, it seems beyond logic and reason. It speaks to a concerning direction in society, and reminds us of the importance of standing together to protect and support one another during difficult times. God be with us all and bless us.
What is scary is that someone can get another person arrested for saying something just because they don’t like them. It’s their word against the other person. There are thousands of people who suffer with anxiety, it’s a disgrace that people are using that at an excuse to get someone arrested.
Social media was a platform where you could get in touch with long lost friends, connect with them and family and share your stories. Not anymore. Now you can get arrested for saying one word wrong, or re posting something. I pray for Mr Brady and his family
When I read articles like this, films like ‘Minority Report’ and ‘1984’ no longer look like fiction, but a warning of things to come.
Being arrested for just reposting a meme or for expressing an opinion is not the sign of a thriving community, but of Establishment authority overreach
The example of people being punished for causing discomfort through social media posts raises serious concerns about how far parts of the justice system may have shifted from objectivity toward regulating speech and personal expression.
God bless Darren Brady. I sincerely hope he experiences true justice and restoration. Situations like this show the importance of ensuring that institutions are accountable for their actions and grounded in truth. It is only by coming together as good-hearted people, in courage and discernment, that we can stand up against injustice and hold the establishment accountable for their actions.
I’m seeing this a lot control mechanism brought in to protect vulnerable people but so extreme it’s causing more harm, so in the name of protecting the public they are not protecting. I can walk past someone and if they feel anxious because I walked past can I be arrested? This is the nonsense, where anyone can arrested for virtually anything. It’s insane and the UK needs statues that are like the first amendment in the US constitution. There has to be a level of sensibility. Citizen have to take these things very seriously or we’ll continue to lose our right and safe ways of living.
I’ve lost track the number of times I’ve said “this is madness” but it really is. While I definitely don’t condone internet trolling or inciting hatred, the sharing of memes that no doubt will cause offence to some ought not to lead to an arrest. What a waste of resources!!
This is deliberate. This is on purpose. Controlling and trying to control our lives by what we can and cannot say. Fear is powerful yes but God’s Spirit is infinitely more powerful. I am disgusted by the way citizens and patriots of this country are being treated and how condescending this is, to treat adults like total babies, pandering to hurt feelings at the expense of logic and reason. I have trust that justice will prevail, in truth and righteousness.
I remember there was controversy on my university campus with groups like the “Free Speech Society” who seemed to want to express hateful ideas. There may have been the odd article in the student paper, but that was that.
Fast forward to today and it’s political correctness gone crazy. The situations that are coming up seem increasingly farcical and comical… yet they are not. Real lives are being turned upside down, livelihoods decimated and freedoms curtailed.
Citizens desperately need to stand against this tyranny.
This is 1984. What about the actual crime rates in this country? I hear official figures say that in 50% of the country, not ONE burglary has been solved in the last 12 months! They complain they are under-resourced yet they send several officers to an address to arrest someone for a social media post. That is just ludicrous. They don’t need to do that at all. They’re doing it on purpose and they want clips like this and news of these arrests to get shared online so that it spreads the message of intimidation and fear that they want to spread. They are also deliberately ignoring crimes like burglary and theft to focus on these political agendas to stir and wind up the UK citizens. They want to cause more fragmentation and discord so they can bring in more draconian legislation. They are poking the bear and waiting for it to turn before they can trap it. However, an organised Citizen Body that lobbies respectfully and holds them to account legally, lawfully and with the power of numbers behind them. That’s what they would fear the most.
What an absolute disgrace! This is total madness and a very obvious method of controlling the masses and a sign of things to come.
This article really nails how dangerous it becomes when feelings are treated like law. What’s crazy is how many people don’t seem to realise just how subjective and unstable that foundation is. Once someone’s personal sense of discomfort becomes the measure of harm, you end up with a tyranny of thought where anything can be labelled “bad” or “dangerous” not because it actually causes harm, but because of what it could lead to in someone’s imagination.
That’s why criticism of left-wing ideology, or any ideology, can be treated as alarming or distressing even when the criticism itself isn’t harmful — it’s judged by emotional reaction rather than reality. And this isn’t limited to one side of the spectrum; it can be weaponised anywhere. When subjective feelings become the basis for rules and consequences, you stop protecting actual harm and start policing ideas. That’s a very slippery slope toward control, not justice. Thanks for calling this out with such clarity.