Court Reports: Tommy Robinson explainer

Tommy Robinson is due in court today to answer to a charge he refused to give a pin number to his smartphone while stopped by Police in Folkestone, Kent, as he was about to cross into mainland Europe. His claim is that he doesn’t have to because he’s a Journalist. While it’s true some Journalists have successfully refused to do this before, Robinson is not noted as being a Journalist in the proper sense. He’s seen by some as an unofficial documentarian of his own activism, and this makes him a celebrity rather than a reporter or a fully fledged Journalist.