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Mark Meechan
Mark Meechan () (born 19 October 1987) is a Scottish YouTuber, comedian, and former candidate for the European Parliament. He uses the pseudonym Count Dankula. Meechan received press coverage when he posted a video showing him teaching his girlfriend's dog how to raise its paw in the manner of a Nazi salute, and to react to the phrase "Do you wanna gas the Jews?" Meechan was arrested and convicted of being "grossly offensive" under the Communications Act 2003, following a trial in March 2018. The arrest generated controversy and discussions about free speech. In April 2018, Meechan was fined £800. Meechan stated he would not pay the fine, and instead donated £800 to the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity. In March 2019, the money was seized from his bank account by an arrestment order. Arrest In April 2016, Meechan posted a video on YouTube of his girlfriend's pet pug Buddha titled "M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi". At the start of the video, he says: "My girlfriend is always ranting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coatbridge
Coatbridge (, ) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. Along with neighbouring town Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Airdrie, Coatbridge forms the area known as the Monklands (population approximately 90,000 including outlying settlements), often considered to be part of the Greater Glasgow urban area – although officially they have not been included in population figures since 2016 due to small gaps between the Monklands and Glasgow built-up areas. In the last years of the 18th century, the area developed from a loose collection of Hamlet (place), hamlets into the town of Coatbridge. The town's development and growth have been intimately connected with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, and in particular with the hot blast process. Coatbridge was a major Scottish centre for iron works and coal mining during the 19th century and was then described as 'the industrial heartland of Scotland' and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airdrie Sheriff Court
County Buildings was a judicial building on Bank Street in Airdrie in Scotland. The building, which was the venue for hearings of the Airdrie Sheriff Court, was demolished in 1969. History The first judicial building in the town was the Airdrie Town House on the east side of Bank Street which incorporated a courtroom and a police station and was completed in 1810. In the mid-19th century, court officials decided to commission a purpose-built courthouse. The site they selected was on the west side of Bank Street, facing the town hall. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 31 July 1856. It was designed by James Thomson in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in around 1858. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of nine bays facing onto Bank Street. The central section of three bays featured a two-storey tetrastyle portico formed by four Doric order columns supporting an entablature with triglyphs and a modillioned pediment. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley is an American attorney, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism. A professor at George Washington University Law School, he has testified in United States congressional proceedings about constitutional and statutory issues. He has also testified in multiple impeachment hearings and removal trials in Congress, including the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and both the first and second impeachments of President Donald Trump. Turley is a First Amendment advocate and writes frequently on free speech restrictions in the private and public sectors. He is the author of the book ''The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage''. As an attorney, Turley has worked on notable cases in civil rights defense including the defense of Sami Al-Arian, NSA whistleblower David Faulk, protesters at the World Bank/IMF demonstrations in 2000, and the Brown family in their challenge to Utah polygamy laws. Turley has also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Randazza
Marc J. Randazza (born November 26, 1969) is an American attorney and InfoWars legal commentator, who specializes in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Early life and education Randazza was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Gloucester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Gloucester High School (Massachusetts), Gloucester High School in 1987. Randazza attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he majored in journalism. During his higher education, he wrote a thesis on vote pairing, which was cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Career Randazza is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts (2002), Florida (2003), California (2010), Arizona (2010), and Nevada (2012). Randazza's first case was representing a fraternity at Boston University when the brothers of that fraternity were accused of destroying their house and other misconduct. He then began practicing in Florida as a real estate attorney. He quickly returned to the First Amendment and me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shappi Khorsandi
Shaparak Khorsandi (, ; born 8 June 1973), who previously performed as Shappi Khorsandi, is an Iranian-born British comedian and author. She is the daughter of the Iranian political satirist and poet Hadi Khorsandi. Her family left Iran for the United Kingdom following the 1979 revolution, and she frequently references her Iranian heritage and reactions to it in her stand-up comedy performances. Khorsandi rose to national prominence after her 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show ''Asylum Speaker'' and her appearance at the '' Secret Policeman's Ball'' two years later. She has featured on numerous British television and radio programmes, including the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Shappi Talk'' (2009 and 2010), and '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' in 2017. Khorsandi has authored several books. Her memoir ''A Beginner's Guide to Acting English'' was published in 2009. Her first novel, ''Nina is Not OK'', was published in 2016, and her young adult fiction novel ''Kissing E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Pie
Jonathan Pie is a fictional character portrayed by British comedian Tom Walker. Pie is a political correspondent who rants angrily about Western politics with a focus on popular topics of British, American, and Australian politics, giving his true personal opinions before or after filming a scripted news segment with a mild demeanour. History The first spoof news report featuring Pie, released just after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party in September 2015, was responding to mainstream media reports that gave particular weight to Corbyn's past relationship with Diane Abbott. Walker was soon approached by several media companies, including RT UK. He worked with RT for several months before leaving in July 2016, just before his appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. The character received international coverage after the 2016 American presidential election, when his comments on Donald Trump's victory went viral and became a YouTube tren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and Television presenter, presenter. Emerging from the Footlights, Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on ''The Frost Report''. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show ''Monty Python's Flying Circus.'' Along with his Python costars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975), ''Monty Python's Life of Brian, Life of Brian'' (1979), and ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Meaning of Life'' (1983). In the mid-1970s, Cleese and first wife Connie Booth cowrote the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'', in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, for which he won the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born 12 June 1962) is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He received widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues. Often described as Conservatism, conservative, Peterson has identified himself as a classical liberalism, classical liberal and traditionalist. Born and raised in Alberta, he obtained two bachelor's degrees, one in political science and one in psychology from the University of Alberta, and then a PhD in clinical psychology from McGill University. After researching and teaching at Harvard University, he returned to Canada in 1998 and became a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. In 1999, he published his first book, ''Maps of Meaning, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief'', which became the basis for many of his subsequent lectures. The book combined psychology, mythology, religion, literature, philosophy and neuroscience to analyze systems of belief and Mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Murray (author)
Douglas Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British neoconservative political commentator, cultural critic, and journalist. He is currently an associate editor of the conservative British political and cultural magazine ''The Spectator,'' and has been a regular contributor to ''The Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph,'' ''The Sun,'' the ''Daily Mail,'' ''New York Post, National Review'', '' The Free Press'', and ''UnHerd''. His books include '' Neoconservatism: Why We Need It'' (2006), ''The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'' (2017), '' The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity'' (2019), ''The War on the West'' (2022), and ''On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West'' (2025). Murray was the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society, a neoconservative think tank, from 2011 to 2018. Murray is a critic of current immigration into Europe and of Islam. He became more well-known internationally due to his advocacy for Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dale
Helen Dale (born Helen Darville; 1972) is an Australian writer and lawyer. She is best known for writing '' The Hand that Signed the Paper'', a novel about a Ukrainian family who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust, under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko. A daughter of British immigrants, Dale was educated at Redeemer Lutheran College in Rochedale, a suburb of Brisbane. While studying English literature at the University of Queensland, she wrote ''The Hand that Signed the Paper''. In 1993, the novel won ''The Australian''/Vogel Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Dale published her book in 1994 and won the Miles Franklin Award, becoming the award's youngest winner. The following year, she was the subject of a major Australian literary controversy because she had falsely claimed Ukrainian ancestry as part of the basis of the book (and her pseudonym). The misrepresentation has been described as a " literary hoax" in ''The Sydney Morning Herald.'' The novel was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Blair
Tim Blair (born 1965) is an Australian editor, journalist, political commentator and blogger. He works for ''The Daily Telegraph'' in Sydney. In mid-2001, Blair began blogging on Blogspot. By 2004, he had attracted a significant following, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' describing him as a "top dog among the new Australian digerati" who "some days draws more than 20,000 readers to his website." In addition to running his blog, Blair was previously a news editor and regular columnist for now-defunct magazine '' The Bulletin''. He also worked as a journalist and senior editor at ''Time'', ''Truth'' and ''Sports Illustrated'', and has also written for Fox News. He has contributed a monthly column titled "Sweetness & Light" to '' Quadrant'' since May 2017. Blair has also appeared on 4BC, Radio National and the ABC programme '' Insiders''. Politics Following American president George W. Bush's visit to Baghdad during Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik (born 26 January 1960) is a British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism, and race. These topics are core concerns in ''The Meaning of Race'' (1996), ''Man, Beast and Zombie'' (2000) and ''Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate'' (2008). Malik defends the values of the 18th-century Enlightenment, which he sees as having been distorted and misunderstood in more recent political and scientific thought. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010. In March 2025, Guardian Media Group agreed to pay "substantial" damages to Douglas Murray over a column in which Malik had made the untrue statement that Murray had encouraged the 2024 United Kingdom riots. Career Malik was born in Secunderabad, Telangana, India and brought up in Manchester, England. He studied neurobiology at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
