Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen. And this is a show

for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. Our terrific guest today

is a teacher who is dismissed from eaten over a controversial lecture. Well Nolan, welcome to

Trigonometry. Thank you for having me. It's great to have you on. I've given you the brief introduction

and we'll get into the story itself. But before we get into just tell everybody a little bit about

who you are, how are you where you are, and where do you work out?

So interesting question about how I ended up where I am. After studying English at university,

I knew we wanted to be a teacher. So I've just constantly been working in schools since then.

Make sure of schools. So secondary modern school in Kent. And then other in the spectrum,

which is eaten. Between that high gate school in London for a few years as well. And I've always

been very passionate about the importance of balanced debate in education, open rigorous discussion.

And it's because of that that when I was asked to not only allow the cancellation of a lecture

intended for a hot button controversial issues debating course at eaten to be cancelled at eaten,

but also to remove it from my private YouTube channel. That I am where I am now. I asked questions

about why this debate couldn't be had. If not eaten, why not allow people to explore the issues

online in their free time, especially because I'd agreed with eaten to put a disclaimer on the channel

when I set it up saying it was nothing to do with eaten's personal views. So I was a bit puzzled

why students weren't allowed to practice the importance of independent critical thought,

at least in their own time, if it wasn't allowed at the college itself.

We'll get into the story itself, but we have a large international audience as well. And

most people, even in this country, haven't been to eaten. I don't know if you've been to eaten first.

I have been to eaten just as a visitor. And I just tell everybody a little bit about what is it like?

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