The full transcript is more than 8000 words in length so in order for our readers to have the opportunity to process all the information in bite-sized chunks The BFD is publishing the content over eight consecutive days. Warning This press conference has been flagged and taken down by multiple
As Theodore Dalrymple points out, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is a nationalist and a socialist: “a national socialist”. Which might, perhaps, explain her government’s hyper-sensitivity to erstwhile national socialist leader Adolf Hitler being mocked by silly-looking dogs. When YouTube comedian Mark Meechan, aka “Count Dankula”, posted a video
As election rumblings grow louder it’s worth reviewing some of the key fault lines of the last three years. Some of these cracks in the public square will inevitably re-open in the next term, especially in the (unlikely!) event that the current government is returned. Among the most significant
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Twitter, Facebook and YouTube/Google have unanimously agreed Americans are too stupid to filter the information presented on their platforms for themselves. Worse, they have subjectively decided a press conference of America’s Frontline Doctors held in front of the Supreme Court of the United States
Patrick Corish Co-ordinator Free Speech Coalition While the Free Speech Coalition focuses exclusively on freedom of expression in New Zealand, we like to keep tabs on free speech developments in our Western democratic cousins. Sadly, last week the Federal Court of Australia heard an appeal against a professor’s right
Big Tech is censoring what you can find out about almost anything these days. The latest censorial masking is of a viral video of a press conference in D.C. held by the group America’s Frontline Doctors sharing their views and opinions on coronavirus and the medical response to
In my circle of friends and acquaintances there are several who range in areas to the left of centre. Some of them are just mildly so with a “feelgood” attitude that everybody deserves a fair go, while others are so far out in left field with their thinking, that they’
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Alexander Hall papundits.wordpress.com Don’t doubt that Wikipedia is liberal. Fierce debate erupted among Wikipedia moderators about whether Fox News could even be used as a credible source in Wikipedia entries. It ended by being a source that could only be used with proper warnings in place. Wikipedia
Redline rdln.wordpress.com Kenan Malik in the Guardian 19 July 2020 reminds us that censorship aids the powerful. This has been almost forgotten in the West where woke authoritarians want to shut down the free exchange of ideas. Free speech is a vital weapon for those struggling for change.
I’ve previously examined the curious phenomenon of the Woke Corporation. How is it, I wondered, that the Marxists and the Globalists have so gotten in each others’ beds. I pointed to Communications (a discipline almost completely dominated by Marxist academics) graduates infiltrating PR departments, as well as left-educated CEOs
Local body politics are supposed to be democratic, and what can be more democratic than the free and open contest of ideas? Free speech in other words. When we democratically elect our local body representatives we elect them to act as our voice for issues and to run the council’
A recent Pew survey has proven what most of us had already gathered just by watching the news: the vast bulk of Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists, and the Cancel Culture bully mobs, are pasty-white lefties. Meanwhile, a growing number of prominent black Americans are taking exception to the
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Dear A.G., It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your
