167: Free speech news
The Last Post
Chris Skinner
4.8 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Conspiracy theorist Tom Ballard joins host Alice Fraser to sound off about censorship, whether the free speech movement ever even existed, and whether we have the right to wrong speech.
For more conspiracy news from Tom, check our episodes 87, 115 and 162.
This is a Somethin' Else and Bugle Podcasts production.
This episode was produced by Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's producer Chris from the Bugle here. Did you know that I have a new series of my podcast, |
| 0:04.9 | Richie Firth Travel Hacker, out now. It's the show where Richie Firth and I talk about how to make |
| 0:10.4 | travel better in our very special way. In this series, we discuss lime bikes, Tesla's, the London |
| 0:18.1 | Overground and a whole bunch of other random stuff that possibly involves wheels or tracks or engines of some variety. |
| 0:25.6 | God, what a hot sell this is. I mean, you must be so excited. Listen now. |
| 0:34.6 | When passions run high And secrets run deep |
| 0:37.9 | When plots twist and turn and turn and twist |
| 0:41.3 | When you love and loathe characters in equal measure |
| 0:44.8 | Oh I think she's a wrongan |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, it's the shifty eyes |
| 0:48.0 | Nothing brings us together like great TV |
| 0:51.5 | And a TV licence covers you to watch all TV channels plus BBC Eye Player |
| 0:56.9 | so you can bond over your favourite soaps and dramas. |
| 1:00.9 | Search TV licence together. |
| 1:05.5 | Something else. |
| 1:19.7 | The Bugle presents. The Last Post with Alice Fraser. |
| 1:35.7 | The with Alice Fraser. Hello, posters and welcome to The Last Post, the final word in this, the most final of worlds. |
| 1:40.7 | Today's episode marks the 15th of June of the year 2020. Happy Global Wind Day |
| 1:46.7 | today and also happy Magna Carta Day. So celebrate those two days by breathing, |
| 1:50.7 | watching a flag, doing a fart and contemplating your rights as against the King. On this day |
| 1:55.3 | in history in 1215, King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede near Windsor in England. At first, |
| 2:00.7 | just a deal with some rebel barons, it has been characterised as the beginning |
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