The Last Great Moment in British History

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Everybody dance now! We're gonna make you sweat as Toby and James bust a few moves and take to the dance floor. After the terpsichorean trip down memory lane they talk Donald Trump's CNN town hall and, closer to home, Rev. Calvin Robinson's GBNews monologue on Ukraine (available here) and author Ian Rons' criticism of it in the pages of The Daily Sceptic. That leads to a wider discussion about journalistic ethics.

This week in Culture Corner, James endorses Silo (AppleTV+) and Sanctuary (Netflix), Toby offers up The Diplomat(Netflix). We also get an answer to last week's "genre" question. And we wrap things up with a discussion about the reviews surrounding Queen Cleopatra on Rotten Tomatoes.

Opening sound this week is Calvin Robinson on his GBNews program from last Saturday.

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0:00.0	It's just going to have to edit out those bits.
0:03.2	So he's the one having to pray a price for the preservation of our marriages.
0:07.8	This is London Calling.
0:11.6	London Calling. The situation in the Ukraine has become even more divisive than Brexit, lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
0:18.0	Many people who were awake to the media manipulation during the former seem to be completely falling for the
0:24.4	approved narrative on this one, Hook, Line and Sinker.
0:27.0	Welcome to London Calling with me James Stadinkport and my very good friend Mr.
0:37.2	Toby Young. Tobes what have you been up to this week?
0:40.3	Well James on on Thursday think, of last week the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Bill received
0:49.6	Royal Assent.
0:51.6	So that's been something the Presby Union has been lobbying for for about three years and finally got it over the line in the House of Lords on Wednesday, received Royal Assent on Thursday. So there was a sort of minor celebration on Saturday night for some of those people
1:08.3	have been involved in trying to get this legislation passed. It's going to marginally improve the protections for free speech
1:17.5	and academic freedom in universities in England and Wales. And not only will it impose the slightly more onerous
1:27.1	legal duties to protect free speech on campus on universities, but it also creates
1:32.3	a couple of enforcement mechanisms.
1:34.3	So there already are, or there already were various protections for free speech on campus,
1:39.3	but they were, the rules were more often honored in the breach than the observance because there were no
1:48.1	very few enforcement mechanisms. So one of the benefits of this new legislation is it creates these two new enforcement mechanisms, a new statutory taught which will enable academics and students who think their free speech has been breached by universities to sue those universities in the county court.
2:06.6	And in addition it creates this new office holder in the office for students who's been described
2:11.7	as a free speech,
2:12.9	ZAR, whose job will be to investigate complaints
2:16.4	and if necessary, if he upholds those complaints,
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