Hello and welcome to Brokonomics.

Now, in this episode, I'm delighted to be joined.

Sam, thank you for coming in.

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure and an honour.

Yeah, no, well, and we're delighted to have you,

because your case annoyed me quite a lot when it happened.

Probably not as much as it annoyed you.

That frustrated me.

Yes.

But nevertheless, it did annoy me quite a lot.

And I mean, we talk about what happened in your case, and you've actually written a book about it.

Legal, truthful, guilty, which covers it.

And I'll just sort of cite one of the opening pages of that, where you've got an excerpt from the case.

And it was stickers within the law in isolation range from more or less mainstream quotes about freedom or speech or anti-abortion to generally what would be regarded as extreme but lawful political opinions.

And the prosecution apparently said,

it does not matter whether the contents of the stickers is true or not.

And this is the extraordinary bit, because truth is no defence in court.

Yeah, pretty staggering, especially when we heard it for the first time in court.

That blew my mind that you can...

So, I mean, explain to the audience what you did, but as we've already established,

as far as the court was concerned, everything that you did was legal and everything

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