The Jolly Heretic

The Jolly Heretic

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The left’s new-found love of “free speech” is just Narcissistic manipulation

Sep 18, 2025
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When I was about 22, an old school friend informed me, as we drank together in a Kingston pub called “The Six Bells,” that I simply relished being controversial and that if the “Far Right” ever came to power then I would be the first person to attack them, just to be different. I had always assumed that he was correct, until now.

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