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That’s Debatable!’ is the weekly podcast of the Free Speech Union. Hosts Tom Harris and Ben Jones - both staffers at the FSU - talk about the free speech controversies that have erupted in the past week. Please like, subscribe and share.
The Battle of Ideas 2024 delivered yet another weekend of thought-provoking talks, panel discussions and debate. It was especially heartening to witness so many attendees from the younger generation - so-called ‘Gen Z ’- contributing to and shaping discussion that will equip us to defend enlightenment principles over the coming years and decades.
How ironic it is then, that, according to a new language Guide reported on by The Telegraph, words used to discuss generational differences are to be classified as offensive across Northern Ireland’s Civil Service. The guide also advises staff to use gender-neutral language and to avoid words such as “love”, “dear” or “darling”. In Wales, meanwhile, the next chapter in the Welsh government’s tax-payer funded ‘Anti-racist Wales Action Plan’ is a project to ‘decolonise’ the childhood home of David Lloyd George. According to The Telegraph, the museum in Llanystumdwy honouring Britain’s First World War leader has worked with a “decolonisation consultant” to change its approach to history, and LGBT displays could be included in future.
While our new language commissars continue their mission of command and control across the UK, we shall continue to draw refreshment from the mountain-tops of Western culture - just one reason why we’ll be listening back to the session, “Why JS Bach Still Matters” from the Battle of Ideas.
Edited by Jason Clift

[@alandean2]

A UK First Amendment? What is being amended?

[@AnneFearon]

I wouldn't mind so much if this training also challenged the anti-Welsh racism that I encountered coming from English people in Wales, and it sounds as if Tom could do with a bit of that as well; after all, what's going on when an apparently intelligent adult, faced with a language not his own, is reduced to helpless giggles? For more information, see Mike Parker's book "Neighbours from Hell?"

[@autoazure]

Starting off with an advert! I have now unsubscribed!