Jenny Holland

They are rather unapologetic about it, I'm very happy to say.

And I think specifically as regards to religion, I think young men, we all need this, obviously, no matter age or sex, but we all need challenge.

But young men in particular want the harder forms of devotion because they most of all need challenge.

And they've been denied, for example, rights of passage,

um and sort of writes initiation into manhood they've been denied all of these things their entire lives and they've been taught in this sort of like longhouse environment where um you know everything is about feelings and it's all very soft and touchy-feely but actually it's very sort of emotional blackmail and emotional toxicity and they're reacting against it is it

Yeah, it's actually I want to start out by saying that both of the stories I'm about to discuss are in the news largely because of Britain's Free Speech Union, which is a grassroots advocacy group run by former journalist Toby Young and a group of other people.

And I am also on the Northern Irish Advisory Committee for that group.

And they have been indefatigable in standing up for ordinary Britons who are being persecuted by the state for their speech.

The teacher in question, who wishes to remain anonymous, was in fact fired, like you said, when he chastised or admonished a group of 10-11-year-olds, so middle schoolers, late elementary schoolers, for washing their feet in the sink, which is, I suppose, a Muslim practice.

And he told them that it was not a religious school that they were at.

that if they wanted to attend a Muslim—Islamic school, there was one nearby, and that in fact Britain was a Christian country, and that King Charles, like you mentioned, is the king and the head of the Church of England.

For that, he was sacked.

The children said it was upsetting.

They reported him to the authorities.

He was investigated by the police for criminal—as a criminal matter.

And interestingly, it's not just the judiciary, Ben, and it's not just the sort of higher up elites.

We're also talking about a bureaucratic apparatus that is fully weaponized against freedom of speech specifically, actually almost exclusively when it's done by white working class men.

This is a campaign against white working class speech.

Let's be very clear here, because we also we also see sort of cultural loveys and media darlings allowed to say things like F the IDF and praise Hezbollah.

But if a teacher says you can't do this, the teacher.