32. LIVE SHOW: The Conservatives' war on free speech
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 20 February 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
According to the Conservative government and their allies, an intolerant "woke" left is crushing free speech in the UK. But it's based on a lie - and the Tories' 'war on woke' and their Orwellian 'free speech champion' is the real threat to free expression.
I'm joined by experts exposing this narrative as the deceit it is, including barrister Sam Fowles, Guardian columnist and author Nesrine Malik, academic Keir Milburn - who faces being sacked for politically driven reasons - and author Gavan Titley.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what am I doing? I'm sorry, I've actually gagged myself. Now, this is what we're going |
| 0:07.6 | to talk about. This is probably the most all about you thing I've done. And that is quite |
| 0:12.4 | itself, quite the, quite the base level for me to start from. You'll often see images |
| 0:18.3 | of people who have on, on front pages, ironically, of the Sunday Times magazine or the Daily |
| 0:25.9 | Mail with like sell a tape over their mouths or having gagged themselves in a way I just |
| 0:31.1 | did. And I think it's quite a good illustration of this whole discussion we're having today |
| 0:37.2 | about free speech because they've voluntarily done it performatively and they could take |
| 0:41.4 | it off whenever they want. And they're doing it on the front pages of mass circulation |
| 0:47.2 | media outlets where they claim to be silence. Being silence these days is all telling everyone |
| 0:53.4 | you've been silenced is the best possible avenue to start the I've been silence tour. Maybe |
| 1:00.2 | you could say you could start the tour. I don't know with a front page on the Daily Mail. |
| 1:05.0 | I've been silenced, followed by a follow-up op-ed and the daily telegraph about your horrendous |
| 1:10.4 | silencing followed by the today program, News Night, Question Time, a book, obviously the book |
| 1:18.9 | deal with the title I've been silenced. And then you can do your national I've been silence |
| 1:24.9 | tour all over the country where you tell thousands of people about your silencing. That is a debate |
| 1:31.3 | we have. I mean, we can parody it, but it is something that happens. Now that's what we're |
| 1:36.2 | talking to talking about today for those who are joining us on watching it live. Welcome. |
| 1:43.3 | For those listening to this on the podcast, also welcome. Please do give us five stars. |
| 1:47.8 | Helps get the word out, but well, thank you and subscribe to the podcast as well if you haven't. |
| 1:54.1 | What we're doing today is we're having a show dedicated to one of the big supposed debates of |
| 2:00.7 | our time, which is about the the declaration of war by the so-called woke left on free speech, |
| 2:10.0 | which has turned universities into places where free expression and free debate has been shut |
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