Hello, welcome to a special between season bonus episode of origin story.

It's hot off the presses because we're going to be talking about something topical

which chimes with a lot of what we've been discussing in previous episodes.

It's what surprisingly nobody seems to be calling Linneker Gate.

I'm Dorian Linsky, author of 33 Revolutions per Minute and the Ministry of Truth.

My name is Ian Dunst. I'm a columnist with the eye newspaper and I'm the author of how Westminster works and why it doesn't.

So, Ian, what is Gary laid on a platter for us in origin story terms?

We got delivered an awful lot of origin story over the last seven days because we didn't just get delivered fascism.

We also got free speech.

So we got two for the price of one.

Right.

At that point, I think it became irresistible.

And even within fascism, you know, kind of two, I think, distinct arguments going on.

And I was very gratified to see sometimes on Twitter that I was looped into somebody sending

somebody else our fascism episode and going, listen to this.

This clarifies this. I don't think Peter Hitchens listen to this. This clarifies this.

I don't think Peter Hitchens, uh, listen to it.

Do you not?

He's somehow suspect, but he wasn't interested.

I mean, he's normally like a, a groovy, overmited guy.

He doesn't mind admitting when he was mistaken.

Uh, but maybe he was just having a bad week.

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