Students Against Tyranny (SAT) is a predominantly online 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.

In 2023, Harvey attended a number of offline events 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.

Last year, Harvey was somewhat quieter offline. He began the year with another protest at Manchester University. To say Harvey and co were outnumbered would be putting it mildly, but nevertheless he and his tiny band of followers pressed on, making a series of rambling speeches about “Marxism” and supposed “cancel culture”. Elsewhere, Harvey headed 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 following the summer’s riots. Finally, he attended the “Unite the Kingdom” rally organised by Lennon – despite his then being imprisoned for contempt of court.