FREE SPEECH: It’s Time To Address The Unaddressable – Opinion

Mar 8, 2020 by

LAST Friday in central London, two former UKIP officers, Peter Mcilvenna and Alan Craig, launched a new free speech movement, Hearts of Oak, with the support of five speakers, four of whom have been vilified, and worse, over free speech issues.

Mr. Mcilvenna told Politicalite: “We wanted to launch a new initiative — a cultural, educational, social movement that many of us hoped UKIP would be and hasn’t been. There’s no populist movement at all in the UK. … So we came up with this alliance of big hitters who can really hit upon these issues with a big reach, big platform, and let’s talk about the issues that no one wants to talk about – is not allowed to talk about.”

Only the previous afternoon the conservative YouTuber Mahyar Tousi announced in his daily video that he would soon be launching his own national free speech campaign, details to follow.

As it happens, he wasn’t the first: another six days earlier the previous Friday, the conservative activist Toby Young launched his own grand-sounding The Free Speech Union, dedicated to defending those persons who find themselves condemned, outcast, and even sacked thanks to online campaigns, all of which had happened to him.

In his introductory video Mr. Young cited recent examples of speech intolerance and the consequences for those who had fallen foul of the new orthodoxy:

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