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Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com
In between the heatwave moaning, collapsing streams and general studio mayhem, Eric and I managed to cover a surprising amount of ground: British hot-weather absurdities, avocado-and-cocoa remedies, Marmite and coffee percolators, and the theatrical nonsense of modern political farewells. From there we drifted into a proper discussion about rights, entitlement, duty, free speech and the way language gets policed until people start censoring themselves before anyone else has to.
In the third hour I was joined by Monica Schaefer, and we got into far weightier territory: the state of Canada, censorship law, political prisoners, manipulated tolerance, the war on clear moral judgement, and the wider cultural attack on family, nationhood and truth itself. We also talked about the corruption of institutions, the failure of the courts, and why so much of modern public life now feels like organised inversion. Messy technically, yes — but conversation-wise, one of the livelier and more wide-ranging shows we’ve had in a while.
By Paul EnglishBroadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com
In between the heatwave moaning, collapsing streams and general studio mayhem, Eric and I managed to cover a surprising amount of ground: British hot-weather absurdities, avocado-and-cocoa remedies, Marmite and coffee percolators, and the theatrical nonsense of modern political farewells. From there we drifted into a proper discussion about rights, entitlement, duty, free speech and the way language gets policed until people start censoring themselves before anyone else has to.
In the third hour I was joined by Monica Schaefer, and we got into far weightier territory: the state of Canada, censorship law, political prisoners, manipulated tolerance, the war on clear moral judgement, and the wider cultural attack on family, nationhood and truth itself. We also talked about the corruption of institutions, the failure of the courts, and why so much of modern public life now feels like organised inversion. Messy technically, yes — but conversation-wise, one of the livelier and more wide-ranging shows we’ve had in a while.