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Good evening. Lord Baden Powell never, of course, got to hear of the Overton window,

but he would certainly be astonished at what it's done to his boy scout movement.

The Overton windows are smartly wonkish way of defining what is currently acceptable.

It's changed the scouts from being a training course for young imperialists,

inculcated with ideas of national superiority and buttoned up self-restraint,

to an organisation so up to date its members wear lesbian fun badges.

And we heard this week are discouraged from using words like dinner ladies, man-made, Christian names,

even down under for Australia for fear of giving offence.

Is the Overton window getting narrower, particularly free speech, what can and cannot be said in public?

This week, the MP Danny Kruger was subjected to a storm of social media abuse

for suggesting a woman's right to choose an abortion should not be absolute. The online

safety bill is going through Parliament, threatening internet companies with huge fines if they

don't take down material, problematically defined as legal but harmful.

Is this the beginning of the end of free speech, the Enlightenment going into reverse,

or are we just becoming kinder, and the suppression of prejudice, bigotry and hate,

even the unthinking slight that might make others uncomfortable, the mark of a civilised society.

That's our moral maze tonight.

The panel, I'm a Kellevoy, senior editor at The Economist, the academic and broadcaster

Professor Mona Siddiqui, the historian Tim Stanley, and the chief executive of the

NHS Confederation, Matthew Taylor.

Anne, is this an issue for you? You don't seem reticent with your views? Yes, Matthew Taylor. Anne, is this an issue for you?

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