Thanks for this link. It was an interesting debate but Tim Stanley annoyed me A LOT and was IMO wrong on a lot.
Firstly he said people say 'free speech' is suppressed but they're on GB news. Well, there are a lot of people who'll only be invited on there and not the BBC or other more mainstream media (like Graham) and secondly normal women, and vulnerable people do NOT have a voice anywhere. The woman from KPSS was saying a woman is facing criminal charges in jail due to correctly sexing a man. That's suppression of her free speech surely? It's the first I've heard about this - why? Surely it should be in the news?
For many women - especially women who've spent their lives caring and in low paid jobs without social capital - the only chance to get their voice heard is via Let Women Speak. So many women daren't say what they think in their daily lives for fear of losing their jobs.
Then he was talking about online porn and 'freedom' and totally conflated children and adults - so anti safeguarding. Adults should have a responsibility to protect children, and that's not happening. These men in power who do have a voice on these issues are often so crap on safeguarding, it's irritating because the fact children are different to adults shouldn't take a genius to figure out.
Graham was much better on safeguarding and spoke to that effect, so thank goodness for him. (Not yet got my book yet, looking forward to getting it... ). Matthew Goodwin also seems to understand child safeguarding better. But it's depressing that men with such public platforms don't even give 30seconds thought to this because it's important and society is failing children.
Anyway, thought provoking, but would have been nice to see Helen Joyce there instead of Tim Stanley she would have had interesting and useful things to say 😁