Why are defenders of free speech always shutting people down?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Exclusively on The News Agents, we speak to top democrat Jamie Raskin. He's here on a mission to find out if free speech is under threat in Europe. It’s a big talking point in the MAGASphere - he’s visiting with the judiciary committee. So why did he find himself shouted down at a public event by one Nigel Farage?
Later, we talk to Bafta winning actor Adeel Akhtar - famed for Four Lions- about his latest play about money, family, and politics - The Estate.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | He can call me whatever he wants. |
| 0:13.6 | I don't care about that. |
| 0:14.5 | He wouldn't let me finish my speech. |
| 0:16.0 | He wouldn't let me talk. |
| 0:17.2 | And, you know, two or three minutes into my talk, he began screaming that this wasn't about |
| 0:21.3 | Donald Trump and he wasn't going to allow this. And then he said, you're a guest here. You're a guest in our country. You're not being a good guest. And I said, you know what? You're a host. You should act like a host. And then he, you know, started saying I was the most pig-headed person he'd ever seen. And I said, you know what? |
| 0:17.8 | This is why we had a revolution against people like you. |
| 0:20.1 | That is Jamie Raskin, a senior U.S. saying I was the most pig-headed person he'd ever seen. And I said, you know what? This is why we had a revolution against people like you. |
| 0:38.8 | That is Jamie Raskin, a senior US Democrat, talking about Nigel Farage, who wouldn't let him speak at a free speech event earlier this week. |
| 0:49.1 | And Jamie Raskin was speaking to the news agents exclusively, his only interview whilst in the UK, about the threat to free speech. |
| 0:58.4 | Is it real or is it just a mirage being put up by right-wingers? |
| 1:03.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:08.0 | It's John. |
| 1:10.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:11.1 | And the ridiculous thing is that Jamie Raskin was here with the rest of the Judiciary Committee from the House of Representatives. |
| 1:19.5 | Its chairman is really archmagger supporter Jim Jordan. |
| 1:23.9 | And Raskin is the senior Democrat on the committee. |
| 1:28.3 | And they were here to investigate the crisis in free speech in Europe. |
| 1:34.2 | And you'll remember back in February, February the 14th, Valentine's Day, |
| 1:39.1 | you had J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States of America, |
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