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And this is just the start.

In a year or two, we will only be able to access websites of which the 'government' approves.

Perhaps an informative daily visit to the BBC News website to see what news is fit for your delicate sensibilities. With luck, there will be stories about how the new US tariffs on steel and aluminium are expected to hit the UK’s population of drag queens. Or how putting the clocks forward an hour will impact the native population of trans, non-binary and gender-glib folx much worse than anyone else, ever, in history, since The Big Bang.

Perhaps then your brief tour of approved websites will be followed by an informative browse on GOV.UK to read about the latest additional sections to the UK's newly-introduced Islamophobia/blasphemy law, but definitely not the yearly illegal immigration numbers and new house-builds - which are of course, entirely unrelated. (And woe betide anyone who says otherwise.)

In fact, I will look forward to spending much less time on the internet, and I will no doubt be thanking the Labour government for saving me from all of this unpleasant hate speech. (I owe you one, Sir Keir mate!) But I shall hopefully be able to discuss this matter with the other like-minds who inhabit the particular wing of the newly-built prison in which I will be residing for sharing a meme saying, ‘Clothes Horses are Horses’ on X.

So, enjoy what is left of Free Expression and Free Thought while you can. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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I forgot a pic. P{lease refresh the site if you can't see the one at the bottom of the page.

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