Jonathan Healy
speaker
142 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Jonathan Healy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it is extremely ironic given that America is the land of the free and the home of free speech.
Yeah, make me pure, but not just yet.
Look, at the centre of this, the line that Ed Sheeran is trying to walk is the reality that there were atrocities on both sides in this conflict.
But the idea of quantum, that's what's lost in the debate over in America.
One of the things that stood out for me, Ciara, at the weekend, Donald Trump was asked by a journalist in Doonbeg about Gaza, about genocide, and he started immediately talking about the hostages.
And for people who are more tuned in on this side of the planet to what has been happening in Gaza, that just makes no sense.
But in America, that's what they have been dealing with.
An important part of the story in the horror of the conflict isn't really all of this, but it's...
it is significant that the Americans don't want to address the issue of quantum, the scale of destruction in Gaza versus the validity of the Israeli action, not the taking of the hostages and the action on October the 9th, but actions subsequently.
And that's where all of these big megastars now must be terrified.
The Taylor Swifts, the Ariana Grandes.
It's a zero-sum game because if you come out and say you are opposed to the idea of small children being blown up in their homes,
all of a sudden, you're not allowed to play concerts in America anymore.
It makes absolutely no sense.
And I think Ed Sheeran missed the opportunity to take the high moral ground here.
If he had waited to see the reaction of others before posting his response, he probably could have said, you either take me and everyone who's with me, or you don't take me at all.
And he would have been able to stand up to these guys.
Yeah, I mean, look, if we want to dive down that particular rabbit hole and pull out every opinion from everybody, I don't think a song will ever be played at a gig.
Ultimately, what has happened here is that a decision was made, not by Ed Sheeran, but by promoters and venue owners that forced Ed Sheeran's hand.
And
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