Free Speech

Nigel Farage's Reform U.K. Party Reports Green Party Leader's Guillotine Instagram Post to Police

Farage condemns the British government's habit of police action in free speech cases, but wants his political opponent arrested for an Instagram post.

Reem Ibrahim | 7.28.2026 2:15 PM

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Great Britain is facing a free speech crisis, with more than 12,000 people arrested for online speech crimes in 2023 alone. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer British politicians are willing to defend free speech as a principle.

Earlier this week, Reform U.K., led by Nigel Farage (an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump), reported Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police for an Instagram post of a man wearing a T-shirt of a guillotine alongside text that says "We're only making plans for Nigel."

Polanski had accepted the collaboration post, which contained several pictures from a Green Party event, meaning it went out to his 713,000 followers on his Instagram account, but he did not create the post himself. Nevertheless, Farage reposted the screenshot on X, writing, "If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and........

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