WTH Is Britain Throttling Free Speech? Dominic Green Explains.
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dominic Green writes, “The war on free speech is about to violate the most sacred recesses of British life—not the home or the workplace, but the pub.” In legislation dubbed the “Banter Bill”, Parliament is attacking the center of British life in a new effort to hold employers accountable for staff’s hurt feelings over third parties “offensive language”. Under the UK’s two-tiered justice system, government is now in the service of a minority to punish perceived miscreants for free speech. How did the UK government arrive here? And how will the British restore freedom and common sense?
Dominic Green is a fellow at the Royal Historical Society, a Wall Street Journal contributor, and a Washington Examiner columnist. He was previously a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and editor-in-chief of The Spectator’s U.S. edition. Dr. Green is the author of five books about British history and society.
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| 0:07.1 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.5 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.0 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:26.8 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:32.6 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | What the hell is going on in England? What the hell is going on in England? |
| 0:38.5 | What the hell is going on is the British have a new piece of legislation which has been called the banter bill. |
| 0:46.7 | And what it does is, so imagine if you were, you know, you're an American and you're in a bar and you are talking about the border disaster |
| 0:58.5 | that Joe Biden unleashed on America. And you're saying, he let in 12 million illegal migrants into |
| 1:04.6 | this country and they're criminals and they're coming from insane asylums and they're wreaking |
| 1:09.2 | havoc on our country. And we got to kick these people out. |
| 1:12.7 | And there's a immigrant who's working there and overhears that and is offended. |
| 1:17.2 | You know, in America, tough luck, you know? |
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