Rory Sutherland

I'm not one of those people who, by the way, I'm not J.D.

Vance.

I don't believe that free speech is completely dead in the UK.

But there are worrying signs where people who make a complaint on the basis that they found something disturbing

can then call in the, that's not a police matter, unless it involves a direct threat of physical action.

I mean, simply being disquieted by something can't be.

And so whether you agree or disagree with him and his views... I have to confess, I was only dimly aware of his existence beforehand, perhaps because I'm a Brit.

How many of these people who are hypersensitized on one side or the other?

How many of them really exist?

By the way, don't include things like, you know, one of the things I find really disturbing is the practice of the media describing people who, say, oppose uncontrolled immigration and describe them as a far-right group.

Oh, and well, because that is, that, you know, normal people are described as far-right.

So in other words, if you literally take an opinion which may be held, by the way, from my own personal standpoint, I'm pretty benignly disposed to immigration within reason.

However, I also believe in democracy.

And if a significant proportion of the population disagrees with me, I owe it to them to hear them out because their circumstances are different to my own.

You know, I might be beneficially

You know, one of the slightly annoying things is people who are very rich people who are pro-immigration because they say their Polish housekeeper is wonderful.

Well, that is an experience of immigration, which is not shared perhaps by any means by the other 98% of people.

I'm conscious of the fact that depending on where you are, you see the world differently.

That's inevitable.

And the job of a democracy is to accept the majority opinion even when it goes against your own.