Really? Not a single thing he said was true. He called me a “sheep” and said I wanted to kill him. He also banged on about the UK government building concentration camps. He had a Jewish star attached to his arm. And you saw all this and thought “this guy seems reasonable and measured”? Amazing.

What I will say, is that the level of cranks, and the hyperbolic messaging/banners was far lower than earlier lockdown protests.

I didn’t see any 5G cretins, only one referral to Bill Gates and very little else that I would consider bat guano crazy.

The majority of banners I saw (excluding the handouts) were anti vax passport/mandate, not anti vax. There’s a huge difference.

The cranks are always going to flock to such a demo, in the same way fascists and Nazis would to an anti Islamisation demo, and fascists and communists would to a pro Palestine demo.

I saw people in the march shouting at public for wearing a mask on the street, and it was embarrassing to share a demo with them.

I hope someone steps up and creates a movement that is pro science, vaccines, freedom and anti censorship, mandates, passport, lockdown.

I’m not calling you a liar, but I’m struggling to believe you couldn’t spot someone within the crowd that appeared to be capable of presenting a legitimate and liberal case for being at that demo.

It reminds me of the Will Franken stand up sketch where a BBC reporter was looking for people at a demo to represent a Brexiteers.

I look forward to hearing more from you on the liberal argument for opposing mandates and lockdown etc, if you do of course.

Thanks for all of your podcasts over the last year.
I do enjoy them, and as you asked those cranks, you’re one of the people I look to for information and views on contentious subjects.

Have a great Christmas!

“What Rushdie did was nothing but a attempt to vilify and provoke anger at Muslims globally” – utter nonsense. Muslims cannot cope with people who point out the illogicality of the book upon which their belief system is based. (Mind, neither can Christians.) Rushdie pointed to some of this illogicality, and the Muslim world, knowing it had no answer, did what people always do in those situations, they attacked the messenger because they couldn’t win against his message.

As Tupac once said “Yeah but you did it in a sleazy way”

You want to talk about principles huh? That’s funny.

As for his anti Semitic views. It is wrong. Absurd. He should have been called out for them.

As for his anti Zionism comments. He has the full support of everyone in this world who is against the genocide. Who is against bullying on a state level. Who is against open air prisons. What happened to the Jews in the Holocaust is being echoed today with what the state of Israel (not its people but the state) is doing to the poor Palestinian people.

The US knows it. The UK knows it. And the rest of the world knows it well.

I guess the question is if all you need to do is identify as a woman then what is the definition of a woman? What exactly are they identifying as?
As for vaccination requirements I’m also of two minds; I agree that we should not give the government more power but we already require vaccination for schools and such so this doesn’t seem to me like a power grab.

I don’t know if you guys are aware of the Tolkien Society’s recent shenanigans but I thought you might be interested in this nonsense:
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2021/07/recordings-of-tolkien-and-diversity-seminar-now-available/

No less confusing for them than anyone else. Why more confusing for them because one is black and one is white. Do couples see eye to eye on everything I don’t think so, so one being white and one black is neither here or there. SMH