Hi and welcome to the John Goren podcast something a little bit different today.

I've basically just written down a random list of what's been going on over the last

fortnight including today.

I nearly made a podcast a couple of days ago,

and then I decided no, the atmosphere was too dangerous.

Would I get arrested if I said the wrong thing? I'm being serious. So then I fell prey to the worst

kind of censorship there isn't the world and it's called self-censorship. I'm angry that that's what's happening in this great country of ours.

Free speech is definitely under attack. So today, and an old listener of mind rang me up this morning and he's prompted me to do this, he just said,

well, just talk about your reflections. So that's what I'm doing. This is a reflective piece.

There's no answers. I'm just going to go through what's been happening in the past couple of weeks

tell you my views and then find out what you think. You can always contact me on Twitter or on Facebook or send me an email John at

John Gaunt.com I got a load of emails which I'll read out in the next

podcast but I nearly gave up again because I thought I don't want to fall into this trap of I got to

take my side and stick two fingers up at everybody else which is what's happening at the

moment in all social media and on many podcasts. So these are just the rambling

thoughts of Chairman John. Forgive me. We'll start off with this. I said yesterday

after that terrible attack in Leicester Square in the West End which we can't

really talk too much about but I said look we've got to police the streets not

tweets I see certain radio stations and TV stations nicked that concept and they've been saying

it as if it was their idea. Maybe it was, maybe they had the same idea at the same time.

Obviously we've got to police the streets that's got to be a priority. I mean I

condemn the rioters for example without a shadow of a doubt the tough sentence in

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