This appeared on my Twitter home page ten minutes ago:

‘This account, @Slogfrog, was suspended for sending multiple unsolicited mentions to other users’

As Twitter offers no right of appeal, perhaps someone else can explain to me:

1. Why things retweeted to me from people I don’t follow aren’t abusing my rights?

2. Why – on the six occasions this has happened before to date – it has always (without exception) happened within minutes of taking a perfectly legitimate swipe at someone in politics?

I’ve now ticked their little boxes and promised not to do it again, so I have been restored to life by the Ministry of Truth. I usually find that, like with Plod, it’s best to just grovel and then get on with life. But for the record, this is the burst of tweets that counted as ‘multiple unsolicited mentions’ in the last twenty minutes:

I would call these trenchant, probing and witty – not unsolicited: if I follow them, and they tweet to me and/or are retweeted, isn’t that soliciting too?

However, as I’m sure you all realise, this is just the lettre de cachet of convenience used by GCHQ’s agents inside the avian world. Something tells me that this one below is the one that finally got the Pinched Goblins agitated:

This is the amusing little riposte I offered the Prime Minister:

‘Very glad to hear you’re funding children until 2020. Then what?’

The reason I suspect this was the straw that broke the Camerlot’s back is….my riposte has been deleted.

Nothing like being brazen about one’s censorship, what? Now I know this can come across as me just moaning, but it’s nothing at all to do with what I feel as a user: it’s to do with blatant attacks on freedom of speech. I follow David Cameron, and he tweeted a message I got, and I replied. I didn’t break any Twitter rules at all, I just broke the rules of the Establishment: shut up or else.

It’s not just the Tories: the previous thinskins were Ed Balls (about child abuse), Boris Johnson (about Tim Yeo), Harriet Harman (about her Unite funding), and William Hague (about his foreign ‘policy’).

All pols. Just fancy that.

I ask you to get this around as widely as possible. It’s the most obvious instance of vindictive censorship I’ve yet suffered at the hands of these people.

Earlier at The Slog: Your Party right or wrong will soon cease to exist…unless you engage