Good evening.

Good evening. I'm P's Morgan. Uncensored.

Tonight, freedom and free speech from the shocking abandonment of Afghan women to the Taliban

to Donald Trump's possible Twitter comeback and the death of comedy.

I'll discuss that with the new superstar of US late-night television. But first,

it's my Orwellian free speech brain dump. Well, George Orwell knew a thing or two about free speech.

You could fill a book with sensible things he had to say about it. This quote especially resonates

today. In any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, he wrote,

a body of ideas of which it's assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

It's not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it's not done to say it.

Well, incredibly, things have got a great deal worse since Orwell wrote that, because it is indeed

now forbidden to say this,

that or the other. And the orthodoxy today is the draconian illiberal world views

stamped on public life by woke fundamentalists, this cancelled culture mob,

said all the rules, trampling over our rights to free speech in the process.

And anyone who doesn't conform is instantly slammed, silenced and

shamed. And much of it is, of course, politically motivated. That's why former President Trump

is barred from Twitter, even though 74 million people voted for him in a democratic election.

But Vladimir Putin, the Supreme Leader of Iran and the Taliban, are all still free to tweet. This is obviously

utterly ridiculous. Now, the billionaire maverick and free speech absolutist Elon Musk, who's

about to buy Twitter, says that the ban is morally wrong and he will reverse it. And he's been

supported by Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter. Trump told me he doesn't actually

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