In this week’s episode of London Calling, I tell James about my event-filled diary last week, the climax of which was bumping into Boris at a party and explaining to him why I was disappointed by his decision to shut us in our homes three years ago; a close second was attending a one-day conference on Friday chaired by the American journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger about how to fight back against the censorship-industrial complex; we then discuss the implosion of the Titan submersible and whether it was a ‘psy op’; the real cause of the Titanic’s sinking in 2012 (new conspiracy theory klaxon); the failed coup in Russia led by the Wagner Group and whether it was all a cunning ploy so Putin could place Prigozhin and his forces north of Kiev without raising Ukrainian alarm bells (eh?); and, in Culture Corner James complains about The Covenant, which he dismisses as “regime propaganda”, and I praise Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which I saw last week with my 15 year-old son.
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Miriam Cates says that “of course racist speech should be illegal”. Have to disagree. The starting point for a properly freedom loving political party should be free speech absolutism. Libel and slander laws are reasonable provided only applied to matters of fact and not opinion. Pretty much everything else can and will be manipulated for political or other nefarious ends.
Very few people I know actually believe in freedom of speech. They will say they do, then they will add, like Cates, of course….x y and z should be illegal.
Some conservative MPs may “get it” when it comes to free speech, but do they “get it” when it comes to lockdown and jab tyranny? No
*Save Andrew Bridgen, and look what happened to him.
The moment that snake in the grass Anthony Bliar started talking about HATE SPEECH I just knew we were on the road to a dark place.
Time has certainly proved me right. Those who pose as our leaders are at this very moment doing their utmost to close down anything that doesn’t conform/adhere to their narrative. Freedom and Democracy.. its an illusion..
Interesting that we have such great protection for freedom of speech in this country that the author writes under a pseudonym, as do I…
I might offer that we use pseudonyms because we have not got a true freedom of speech, but a certain amount of a freedom of speech. The necessity to protect what we have got left enables us to have a personal freedom, one of which is to be able to comment here.
It would be good if this legislation was extended to cover social media providers, for their actions in shutting down free speech on their platforms, and removing any liability for them from the comments carried, except where these constitute a clear breach of the currents laws e.g. blasphemy, incitement and libel/slander.