Free Speech

  • There’s time for free speech, not a speech

    The hyperbolic feelings and apocalyptic sentiments of ordinary people makes good fodder for extremists in the UK. There are more of them in neighbourhoods than in mosques, for example, according to MI5.

    MI5 DG speaking in 2024

    The penchant for speeches is not a healthy pastime in these circumstances, then. The rhetoric is not informative. The rising tides of imagery is not conducive for real action, or behaviour. For results, it’s free speech.

  • Truss laments Soviet-style censorship

    Former PM Lizz Truss has lamented censorship in the UK. While speaking at a conference on Bitcoin, she said the climate is fearful in respect of a right to speak freely.

    Lizz Truss at CheatCode Bitcoin

    Her comparison to the Soviet Union is a personal one, having studied it extensively herself. Her book, Ten Years To Save The West, is her memoir cum manifesto.