Hello everyone. If you live in or near Belfast, I've got a very exciting event to tell you all about.

On Friday the 11th of April at the Ulster Museum, I'll be speaking at a brilliant free speech union event organized as part of their Belfast speakeasy.

The topic is the rise of the speech police. The police's apparent obsession of arresting people over spicy memes, even as they allow burglaries to go unpunished.

It's such an important topic and I'll be speaking alongside the great Harry Miller from Faircop

and Jenny Holland, a beloved spiked contributor. To find out more and to get your tickets, go to

free speech union.org, that's free speech union.org and click on the events tab. Or you can click on the link in the description. See you there.

Hello and welcome back to the Spike podcast. I'm Tom Slater, editor of Spight, filling in for

Fraser Myers in the hot seat today. I'm delighted to be joined by two very special guests. Claire Fox,

the director of the Academy of Ideas and a Life Peer in the House of Laws. How you doing, Claire?

I'm very well, thank you. And also delighted to be joined first time on the show by Josh Howie,

presenter of Free Speech Nation over at GB News. How are doing, Josh? Very good, thanks.

So we've got a lot to talk about today. We're going to talk about 7 October and those who

would seek to deny it, the corruption of statistics around sex and gender,

and the whole discussion about adolescence, Andrew Tate, and young men that had been bubbling up again recently.

Claire, let's start with October the 7th, because I know that you were a member of a parliamentary commission

which has just published a landmark report, chaired by Lord Roberts, cataloging the horrors of October the 7th,

2023, in horrific but quite important, I think, detail what actually took place when Hamas staged

that pogrom in southern Israel. Do you want to tell us a bit about this report and why yourselves and Lord Roberts felt moved to put this down on paper?

Yeah, I mean, I can't, I was there at the beginning when it was decided to do this, to commission this work,

but I can't take any credit, but I've been a witness

to the testimonies a number of times that have come, that have been happening in Parliament.

And I mean, just to sort of show people, I mean, it's a really substantial document this.

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