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Colin Lawson<p>This week&#39;s Reith lecture by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is excellent. Its messages on free speech, moral authoritarianism &amp; social censorship are widely applicable. Dare I say that there are a few journalists, authors, academics &amp; publishers who could do with digesting them?</p><p>Here is an audio recording of the lecture: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Here is a transcript of the lecture: <br /><a href="https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2022/Reith_2022_Lecture1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/rei</span><span class="invisible">th2022/Reith_2022_Lecture1.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ReithLecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReithLecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/MoralAuthoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MoralAuthoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/SocialCensorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialCensorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a></p>
Colin Lawson<p>Excellent <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ReithLecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReithLecture</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a> by <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a>. Great that people like <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Chimamanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chimamanda</span></a> are retrieving this issue from &#39;free-speech warriors&#39; on the Right but also a lesson for those on the Left tempted into <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/tribal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tribal</span></a> self-censorship.</p><p>Here is the recording: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz​" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz</span><span class="invisible">​</span></a></p><p>Here is the transcript: <a href="https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2022/Reith_2022_Lecture1.pdf​" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/rei</span><span class="invisible">th2022/Reith_2022_Lecture1.pdf​</span></a></p>