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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 05:16:53 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://thecritic.co.uk/politicians-cant-handle-free-speech/

   But who needs Milton, when we have Lisa Nandy? As Goya observed with a famous etching, the sleep of reason brings forth monsters. And into this slumberous vacuum comes the Islamists and the woke speech policers in equal measure. The “you can’t say that” brigade may have been on retreat in the last few years, with the Health Secretary James Murray recently forced to recant by Camilla Tominey on his mad idea that a woman could have a willy. But the Islamists are benefiting from our broader civilisational attack on free speech. The Islamophobia definition, fought against so long and so well by so many, is being re-introduced via back doors, including attempts by Welsh police just this week. Whilst politicians think they are going to usher in a kinder world, with enlightened experts deciding what can and can’t be discussed, our internal enemies use the protections afforded by censorship to continue to spread their barbarism.

   If we are not allowed to criticise politicians, religions, or ideas, then we are not free. And no civilisation that wants to survive would hamstring its best means of restoration, the right to free expression. There is only one thing we can’t say; we can’t say we haven’t been warned.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 05:18:05 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate 9,549 people in Wigan put a cross by her name. Perhaps they're the people we need to have a word with. Just sayin' . . .