The Free Speech Union
Episodes
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of free speech, it often feels like we take two half-steps forward followed by a troubling leap backwards, and today’s line-up fits tha...
Never Enough Books
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Now that the doors on our Advent calendars are being opened with alarming rapidity, we take the opportunity to discuss two seasonally related topics: ...
Against Antisemitism
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is little doubt that last week’s FSU panel debate on ‘free speech and the right to protest in the current moment’ was an essential convers...
The Woke Battle of the Sexes
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There was some good news coming out of Exeter University this week, where Ben (alongside Peter Bleksley) successfully debated for the motion, “This...
Forgetting Remembrance?
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This year’s Act of Remembrance was overshadowed by multiple protests taking place across London and the rest of the country. When a recent Ipsos pol...
The Voice Referendum
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following a third week of pro-Palestinian protests in London and other UK cities (including sit-in protests across many major railway stations), the g...
The Battle of Ideas
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode was recorded in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Ideas festival, so Ben and Tom sat down in front of their microphones w...
The Westminster Declaration
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Saturday’s protests on the streets of London were yet another example of partial policing from the Metropolitan police, whose commissioner was calle...
What an Eventure!
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are very fortunate this week to be joined by Dr Jan Macvarish, the FSU’s Education and Events Director. October is always jam-packed with events,...
Undue Diligence
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode was recorded just three days after the appalling terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas. It was only right to begin, therefore, wi...
Tiptoeing through the delicate broadcast ecology
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost exactly a year since PayPal cancelled the FSU’s account and so Tom & Ben kick off today with some thoughts around how much of an e...
Who Governs Britain?
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We begin today’s episode by pondering some interesting parallels between last week’s letter from Dame Caroline Dinenage requesting on-line platf...
Year Zero
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frequent listeners to ‘That’s Debatable’ will remember our interview with Sibyl Ruth from the end of August (you can listen to that episode here...
Losing My Religion
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a couple of weeks now since the public berating of Róisín Murphy for expressing (in a private Facebook post) her concern with some of the mor...
Unsafe Spaces
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we celebrate another significant victory for the FSU! Carl Borg-Neal, 57, was unfairly dismissed and subject to disability discrimination w...
Pax Britannica
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off today’s episode exploring the free speech concerns raised in our latest briefing paper on Carbon Literacy Training (interestingly term...