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The episode discusses the implications of mass migration on free speech and policing in Britain, featuring insights from Benjamin Jones.

If we continue as we are, Britain is set to become an Islamo-Blasphemy regime. So says Benjamin Jones, case director at the Free Speech Union and author of the new book: Island of Strangers - Diversity, Decline and Crisis in Free SpeechBuy the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Island-Strangers-Migration-Blasphemy-Speech/dp/0349021201BRITAIN IS BEING TRANSFORMED. IT IS UNFREE. AND IT IS GETTING WORSE.As mass migration reshapes Britain's population, an increasingly authoritarian state attempts to manage the resulting hyper-diversity by suppressing freedom of speech. We see this in two-tier policing, in attempts to criminalise blasphemy against Islam, and even in the private sector where thousands have lost their jobs or have been punished for expressing their beliefs.In Island of Strangers, Ben Jones - a director of the Free Speech Union - shows how multiculturalism came just as Britain was losing its sense of itself, as Christianity declined, and how its elite embraced a creed of 'diversityism'. Grounded in a long view of Britain's history, this book gets to the fundamental causes of why Keir Starmer's UK feels so unfree.The free speech crisis isn't just a passing problem…

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