Will Kingston
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 14 Oct
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He said that the prescience is extraordinary.
It is absolutely extraordinary, and it is where we are at today.
I am so insanely jealous of your First Amendment.
I would...
dearly, dearly love to have the equivalent of a First Amendment in the United Kingdom, but we don't have that.
That statistic, again, which many people who are watching the show at the moment in the US may not even believe.
30 people a day, give or take, are being arrested for tweets or social media posts or whatever.
But what you alluded to is it is all because you may have caused distress or offence, which, again, is entirely subjective.
I'm offended by the fact that my free speech is being taken away, just as much as someone else may be offended by some sort of silly comment that may be made.
Now, the problem that I think we have on the right, and I think there's problems here in the US as well, I don't think the arguments for free speech in the US are being made as strongly as perhaps they once were, is...
It is sometimes very difficult to make the argument to say you should be allowed to say hateful, nasty, bigoted, awful things, because on balance, it is still better to have that out in the open than to have one centralized body deciding what you can and cannot say.
But here's the thing, if you do make that argument, a lot of people on the left will say, oh, okay, so you're in favor of Nazism, are you?
Or, oh, okay, you're in favor of racism, are you?
And it's not the point.
But where we need to get to, and it shows like this, and Megan, you've been incredibly strong on this, how do we make the argument better for free speech in countries like the UK and the US?
Because particularly in the UK, it is being taken away bit by bit by bit.
Bugger off.
And the reason I was laughing is having lived in the US, again, I can hear the audience just going how utterly bizarre because a country which is so proud of its flag.
Traditionally, the UK probably hasn't quite been like that.
And I think this is something which I absolutely love about the United States is the overt patriotism.
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