Sven Longshanks: Not Quite Free
Sven Longshanks: Not Quite Free
Now I have an addendum for this podcast before presenting it at Christogenea, and Sven is not aware of that, but I am certain he shall be after it is posted.
So Sven Longshanks is out of prison, and now his period of internet and social media restrictions is expired, for which reason he was able to get into contact with me, and to begin podcasting once again, which happened almost exactly two months ago. But as our title states this evening, he is not quite free, and that is because nobody in Britain is free. Britain has actually become a prison island for its own citizens.
Another friend of ours, whom I will not name, had recently planned on coming to the United States to vacation, and had hoped that maybe he could visit us and some other friends. He has never had issues with speech online, or any other activities that are considered unlawful by the British government. But since he is unmarried and self-employed, the British government decided that his travel request should be denied, explaining that because he did not have enough substance or enough of a connection to keep him in Britain, such as a house or property or employment, that they were afraid that he might not return. That is not a home, it is indeed a literal prison, from which a man may not easily escape even if he wanted to, something which our friend did not want.
In addition to these situations, in September of 2025 the rather mainstream media outlet, Forbes magazine, had published an article with the headline People Are Being Thrown In U.K. Prisons Over What They’ve Said Online. Can Free Speech Be Saved? The article is said to have been written by Steve Forbes himself, the Chairman of the company and editor-in-chief of the magazine. This is the same Steve Forbes who had attempted to run for U.S. President a couple of times in the late 1990’s. He was initially responding to the arrest of an Irish comedian in the U.K. for what he described as “the ‘crime’ of three politically incorrect tweets”.










Sven Longshanks Interviews William Finck, for Radio Aryan, Monday, December 18th 2017. This was a rather impromptu introductory interview I had been promising Sven for months, and he finally cornered me.













