Hello and thank you for joining us for this book club and interview. Today I'm going to be discussing the book Lawfare, a practical guide by Henry Martin, published by Imperium Press, that came out earlier this year.

And to discuss it in depth today, I'm talking to his author, Henry Martin, otherwise known as reactionary reading law. Thank you very much for joining us today, Henry.

Thank you for having me, Harry.

And so let's get straight into this then. So the book is called a practical guide.

What was your reason for writing a practical guide that's kind of aimed at right wingers and dissident centrist types.

What is it that they do wrong that needed to be corrected with such a guide?

Right, so this ties back to the origins of my substack, which I set up, oh gosh, four years ago now, 2021.

The reason I set that up was I kept hearing people

throw around the term lawfare with, especially in a UK context, with no understanding

or deliberate use of the word. And they were just throwing it around. So whenever there was a

judgment that our side of politics didn't like, it was

activist judges, it was the result of left-wing lawfare, and terrible, evil, liberal lawyers. And I'm

caricaturing that position a bit, but that's been the quality of legal discourse on the right for years now with the exception of myself and a few others now.

And I decided that that had to change because a lot of the mistakes that were being made by people were fairly elementary mistakes that anyone with a basic understanding of law

would be able to acknowledge his mistakes and work around.

Moving on to the book, the reason I ended up writing the book was because lots of people in my sort of private

life people I know who are activists, content creators and people like that were saying to me,

could you put a condensed understanding of lawfare, try and define the term and explain how it works in a practical context.

So I spoke to my writing mentor and said, you've written lots of books. How do you do it?

Step one was writing a proposal. So I had to think about it, wrote a proposal, and sent it to

Imperium with links to my substack. And myself and Mike had a conversation about it, wrote a proposal, and sent it to Imperium with links to my substack,

and myself and Mike had a conversation about it, and he said, I like the idea, get on with

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