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Thank you Tommy (and Elon)! The Police Are Now Unlikely to Ever Again Detain Right Wing Influencers Under the Terrorism Act

Nov 05, 2025
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Imagine being in a situation where every time you go abroad on holiday, you have to fear coming back to the UK. You put your passport into one of the electronic gates and there’s a few seconds of amazing tension before they open. Imagine making plans for the realistic possibility that you will be detained for many hours by the police and that they will take your digital devices for a week and arrest you if you don’t give them the PIN numbers: not taking your mobile abroad, having a special “travel phone,” and not taking your laptop abroad.

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