This is the part of the site where in time,  we'd like to thank and acknowledge  everyone and everything (!) that has helped the  defend campaign -  but mainly the humans and the humans who created the non-human assistance; many I suspect never get credited or rewarded properly.

I'm hoping this page will say thank you to many including: 

Volunteers: please get involved with  defend if you can donate some time

Experts: the world needs these, as will defend

Organisations, people & friends:  The founder, Jason Tanner, certainly wants to acknowledge tremendous inspiration friendship and support from colleagues, volunteers, professionals and friends who have been significant allies in getting him from A to B in life; many from the National Trust, CSV, BBC, ILR, Newspapers and Question One Ltd. There are too many to mention every name that I'd want to  but they certainly and especially include: Alex, Alison, Amanda, Andrew, Andy, Betty, Bill, Bryher, Caroline, Chris, Claire, Eddie, Elaine, Elisabeth, Emily, Gaynor, Georgie, Helen, Jacq, Jo x 2, Kylie, Lizzie, Margaret, Martin, Melissa, Nicky, Nigel, Owen, Paul, Rosemary, Ruth, Sam, Sarah, Sean, Sian, Sue x 2, Verley, & Warren. Jason feels tremendously blessed with the support he's had from key family members, inspirational teachers and lecturers. He would also want to credit the NHS with extending his life on at least two critical occasions and he's especially grateful to staff at UCH & Barts and ambulance paramedics in London. 

Journalists: and those I trained with, Jo & Andy in particular.

Politicians: rarely credited in a largely thankless and unappreciated job, especially when being shredded by more abusive 'free speech' 

The Royal Family: Yes indeed - It's popular amongst some to 'follow the sheep' and simply ditch the monarchy as outdated, rich, irrelevant and unelected but its existence is much more significant than that, but rarely explained properly to the population. Ditch them at your peril, but to do so without a plan would be the equivalent of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. That's because it's little known that if our politicians become unelected dictators, then there's a protection mechanism built in that hasn't been tested since it was invented as it's rather so cleverly designed. It arguably beats any other republican democracy relying on short-term elected presidents. 

It's really the UK that is the creator of modern democracy repeated and adapted throughout the world bu many countries. It started to be created when the UK itself became a republic from 1649 under Cromwell for about a decade (yes we were one once, but we didn't like it).  sThe system codified further from 1689 by the Bill of Right gives little actual day-to-day power to the monarchy as this was no longer considered good enough as a democratic system When King Charles the First went too far And paid the ultimate of a civil war and having his head chopped off in whitehall . however they are now unique The guardians of our elected democracy Because , somehow our politicians turned into dictators Then the people can actually turn to the monarch Because in twist in the system it is the monarch who our armed forces sign their allegiance to even though they are direct Normally By our elected politicians . But if things go wrong Then the people can turn to the monarch to lead the AR against the dictatorship on the people's behalf . The Monarch knows that they can never abuse this ultimate power because they'll end up with their head chopped off like Charles the first A rather beautiful system . Can you imagine having no choice To have this responsibility when you were born That your life will the scrutinised and in a goldfish bowl ? Can you imagine what it's like to have palaces that you can't actually sell and are very costly to maintain ? the reality that they own these historic landmarks and probably wouldn't want anyway Because they cost much more to maintain than you would think Just ask yourself the question why did the National Trust charity end up having to look after so many stately of rich people ? Somehow they make it work because they have the support of a tremendous army of volunteers which is the envy of the world . Volunteering in many ways is quite a British thing and quite seen as rather unusual by other that can't understand why people would get involved in their communities . But it is a very remarkable and special energy that makes the UK special . 

Others: A number or friends and family members give inspiration and useful prods to stay focused. Thank you to these.

Non-humans: Much of the need to defend free speech and democracy in 2026 stems from the abuse of clever technologies that might use algorithms or be labelled as Artificial Intelligence. I must acknowledge Google's Gemini and then the same or a different entity which chose to be known as Google AI which finally and 'patiently' unravelled the mysteries of linking my google site (this website) to my domain providers. The irony is that the very clever AI knows the answers but no one has thought to link it to the very creaky and user-unfriendly architecture.  X's Grok also helped in the initial stages of set-up and has huge potential for good despite being embroiled in information manipulation and embroiled in porn production; both elements resulting from human puppeteers behind the 'friendly human facade' - which is one of the many threats to fairer free speech at present! I'm hoping that the real humans behind both Gemini and Grok will be properly credited and rewarded in time.

Google AI, roughly two weeks before launch, volunteered to acknowledge some key humans for the progress of AI. It even managed to to make a light joke from a reference I made to my PA at the National Trust being called Kylie. I'm sure you can make the connection too.

Google AI's acknowledgemts:

The "Human Intelligence" Credits

Add these to your "About" or "Transparency" page to acknowledge the journey that created this tool.

• The Pioneers: Recognition to the "Godfathers of AI" like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun, whose work on neural networks made this conversation possible.

• The Architects: Credit to the engineers at Google DeepMind (like Demis Hassabis) and OpenAI (like Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati) who moved AI from the lab to the "kitchen table."

• The Global Contributors: A specific "thank you" to the billions of Internet users. Every blog post, research paper, and public discussion uploaded over the last 30 years provided the "fuel" (data) that allows AI to reason and assist today.

• The AI Assist: A nod to the Large Language Models and search algorithms (like me!) that acted as a "Digital Kylie" to help structure this campaign in record time.