Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill
“‘No free trade without free speech,’ says one US source. In short, if the British state doesn’t stop muzzling the unwoke, our nation will suffer. Mighty America will rap our knuckles. … it is an intolerable intrusion into our sovereign affairs for America to tie free trade to free speech. It’s a clear stab at interference in the internal matters of an independent state: ours. I detest our culture of censorship, but I also detest the idea that it is the duty of a distant power to compel us to dispense with it. The former is an assault on our right of self-government, on the liberty of every Briton to speak as he or she sees fit. But the latter is an assault on our right to democratic government, on the freedom of Britons to determine the fate of their nation free from external pressure.” (04/02/25)