Hi, it's Brendan O'Neill here. I wanted to let you know about an event that is taking place in New York City on the 29th of January.

It's called Should we be free to hate? I will be moderating it. We will be looking at the whole question of hate speech and whether

hate speech is free speech. With Nadeen Strosen, the law professor and former president of the

American Civil Liberties Union and Paul Coleman of the

Alliance defending freedom. Those two will be joining me to have a free frank open

discussion about hate speech and free speech.

That's at the New York Law School in the evening on the 29th of January.

It's a free event, so for more information and to register, go to spied-hyphon online. and I hope to see you there. Now on with a show.

One of the things I always ask people who've also been publicly shamed, you know, when we see each other, we gravitate naturally towards one. It's like a kind of secret club of the deplorables.

One of the first questions I always ask is,

you know, did you lose any weight?

And the answer is always yes about two stone.

And when you are at the center of one of the storm diet.

It must be some kind of primitive survival instinct kicking in.

You know you're going to have to run away from this mob.

Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill. This is a monthly podcast in which an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas, the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century.

This month I am delighted to be joined by Toby Young.

Toby is a columnist, an author, and an educationalist.

He founded the West London Free School, and he was director of the New Schools Network,

which is the charity that helps with the founding of free schools in the state school sector in England.

He has written for numerous publications and he is currently a columnist for The Spectator. He is also the London Associate Editor for Colette magazine.

He is author of the memoir How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about his time as a

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