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Well this isn't asked me anything podcast. I've now received hundreds of questions on Twitter

and in other formats. And I'll try to get through several of them, but many have converged

on a single topic which will come as no surprise. The recent atrocities in Paris, the murders

of the Charli Ebdochartunis and the murders in the Jewish market. And also many of you

are concerned about the subsequent self-censorship which has really been quite amazing to witness.

It's just astonishing that the media cannot do the one thing that it could do to keep it

and everyone else safe. And it can't do the one thing that would have kept the Charli

Ebdochartunis safe, which is publish on mass all of these cartoons and present a united

front against this creeping theocracy. So I'll try to say a few things on this topic.

I haven't commented on it publicly yet. And while I've been circulating the interviews

done by friends and colleagues like Majid Nawaz and Ion Herciali and Douglas Murray, all

of whom have been excellent. I've been declining interviews myself and I'm not quite sure

why I've been doing that. I think the main reason is that it's just become toxic for me

to say over and over again that which should really go without saying and to then be vilified

for it. It really is no fun dealing with this topic. Although I am writing a short book

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