{"id":8175,"date":"2025-10-03T22:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:08:09","slug":"free-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8175","title":{"rendered":"FREE SPEECH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Just got back from a quick trip to the UK which included a reunion dinner at my old Cambridge college. Gave me the chance to retrod many of the steps taken in my youth. One such stop was to the world&#8217;s oldest debating society&#8230;&#8230;.<em>.the Cambridge Union<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-history-1-of-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-history-1-of-1-1024x557.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-history-1-of-1-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-history-1-of-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-history-1-of-1-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-history-1-of-1-1536x836.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-history-1-of-1-2048x1115.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-1-of-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-1-of-1-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-1-of-1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-1-of-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-1-of-1-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-1-of-1-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cambridge-union-1-of-1-2048x1541.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Standing in this empty hall just days ago, I could still hear the long ago voices of Christian apologist and world famous journalist, Malcom Muggeridge, the Archbishop of Canterbury (head of the world wide Anglican church), and R. A. Butler (Deputy Prime Minister to both PMs Eden and MacMillan). Wonder what they would have to say about the modern attack on free speech throughout the Anglosphere.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from a quick trip to the UK which included a reunion dinner at my old Cambridge college. Gave me the chance to retrod many of the steps taken in my youth. 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