Students Against Tyranny (SAT) is a group established by James Harvey to tackle the supposed “wokeness” of universities. While SAT is a distinct organisation, Harvey has been seen as something of a protégé of Dan Morgan and Stan Robinson from Voice of Wales (VoW). 

In the past, SAT has attempted to organise a number of ill-fated demonstrations, many of which were either cancelled at short notice or were dwarfed by much larger counter-protests. Harvey also brought embarrassment to VoW after making monkey noises when referring to the Somali national anthem on one stream and denying the scale of the Holocaust in another, the latter of which he eventually apologised for after a public backlash.

Harvey attended a number of offline events in 2023 which spanned a range of his concerns. These included a conspiratorial protest in Oxford about so-called “15 minute cities”, a VoW-backed protest against “wokeness” in Manchester, an anti-migrant protest in Norwich, a Laurence Fox protest against Drag Queen Story Hour outside the Honor Oak Pub in London, and finally the large scale far-right disorder at Stephen Lennon’s (AKA Tommy Robinson) Armistice Day protest, at which over 140 people were arrested.

In 2024, Harvey was somewhat quieter offline. He began the year with another (heavily outnumbered) protest at Manchester University, before heading to London for Lennon’s march in Parliament Square on 1 June, before speaking at a protest alongside UKIP’s leader Nick Tenconi in Norwich on 10 August as the dust was still settling from the summer’s riots. Finally, he attended the “Unite the Kingdom” rally organised by Lennon – despite his then being imprisoned for contempt of court.

In 2025, Harvey emerged as a leading protest figure in Norwich during a series of summer anti-migrant protests. However, his position was cut short when, after a demonstration outside the Park Hotel in Diss in which he referred to asylum seekers as “foreign filth”, he was charged with a racially aggravated public order. Despite his bail conditions restricting his involvement, Harvey remained active online and attended marches by both Britain First and UKIP throughout the year. His partner Sydney Jones took over much of the organisation of Norwich protests, who continued to campaign for Harvey’s innocence.