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Delighted to be back in the saddle with @NotThatBigIan for a 7th season of #CounterPod. Great banter as always. And serious debate/analysis of UK #Prevent work on CT; the Iran conflict; the Irish CFT/AML initiative; and countering the Muslim Brotherhood.
https://t.co/1TwsZrpDvM
Delighted with this episode of #CounterPod. Great craic with @NotThatBigIan as well as excellent in-depth discussion of important topics. The recording quality too is our best yet, courtesy of the first-rate @FDD podcast recording studio. Feedback welcome!
https://t.co/oJIzaQ8k5p
Wise words from my friend and #CounterPod co-host @NotThatBigIan. Whichever UK political party listens to him will give itself a chance in future elections.
'Supermax' is an Americanised distraction. What we need for a very small number of prisoners who have the capacity & capability for extreme violence & are ideologically driven is a facility that puts the safety & rights of staff & national security *first*.
No more, no less.
In the latest #CounterPod, @NotThatBigIan details CEP & @ARCHERatHouse88's commemorative concert on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Listen to the full episode to learn more about music composed during the Holocaust: https://t.co/tBdA95VPK5
🎙️NEW #CounterPod | @NotThatBigIan & @EFittonBrown discuss @FightExtremism's initiatives on combating antisemitism, including @ARCHERatHouse88.
Plus, what to know about the situation in northeast Syria and ISIS detainees, and more.
https://t.co/tBdA95VhUx
New #CounterPod Episode | Co-hosts and CEP Senior Advisors @EFittonBrown & @NotThatBigIan discuss
Hamas financial networks, the crackdown on the Iranian protests and proscribing the IRGC, and more.
Listen here: https://t.co/87HKubhhKs, via Spotify, or Apple Podcasts!
🎉A surprise #CounterPod! 🎙️
In an end-of-year special, @NotThatBigIan and @EFittonBrown unpack four major security and extremism issues:
✔️Northern Ireland
✔️Muslim Brotherhood
✔️Maccabi Tel Aviv & UK football
✔️Gaza peace plan
Listen below,
https://t.co/QMLHqf3WrF
🎉A surprise #CounterPod! 🎙️
In an end-of-year special, @NotThatBigIan and @EFittonBrown unpack four major security and extremism issues:
✔️Northern Ireland
✔️Muslim Brotherhood
✔️Maccabi Tel Aviv & UK football
✔️Gaza peace plan
Listen below,
https://t.co/QMLHqf3WrF
While necessary, #ARCHERatHouse88 isn't only about memorialization. We seek to in equip future generations, schoolchildren to scholars, with the resources to ensure that "Never Again" is put into action.
Revisit the #CounterPod episode discussing our launch on the sidelines of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: https://t.co/9fOFQsmmCS
SOUTHPORT INQUIRY 🧵
'But for the multiple errors, omissions & fatal misjudgments, the perpetrator would have been seen for who he really was & they really believe he could and should have been stopped. Stopped through a combination of competent diagnosis & risk assessment'
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Hosted by global experts CEP Senior Director @CEPschindler & CEP Senior Advisor @alexRitzmann!
❔Want more ?
You can access our whole archive of podcasts, here:
https://t.co/96EBNdhanx #CounterPod #CEPerspectives #FightingTerror
What's happening in Epping? Listen to the @NotThatBigIan's latest chat with co-host @EFittonBrown on #CounterPod: https://t.co/JRhbNA3lHg #RedCircle
Want to hear more? (Trust us, you do.)
📲Visit this link to access episodes from all five seasons of #CounterPod and @FightExtremism's full roster of podcasts: https://t.co/96EBNdhanx #podcast
➕Better yet, subscribe via @Spotify or @ApplePodcasts!
🎙️OUT NOW: Season 5, Episode 5 of the #CounterPod
@NotThatBigIan & @EFittonBrown discusses the terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, the recent spotlight on the UK’s definition of Islamophobia, and more!
🎧Listen below
https://t.co/JRhbNA3lHg
🎙️NEW #CounterPod: In this episode, @EFittonBrown & @NotThatBigIan discuss the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London on their 20th anniversary; the current proposals for Gaza following Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington; and more.
🎧Listen below! https://t.co/MPNwaH6hgj
🎙️OUT NOW—Season 5, Episode 3 of the #CounterPod!
Co-hosts @NotThatBigIan & @EFittonBrown give the latest on the state of Iran-Israel-U.S. relations, Glastonbury, Islamist antisemitism, and deep insight on Syria.
🎧 Add to your weekend listening queue.
https://t.co/TLSbssGRFY
This week's #CounterPod is chockful of insightful analysis and unique takes from @NotThatBigIan & @EFittonBrown. One question answered, below, was how Israel was able to build an intelligence network in Iran.
Listen to full convo here: https://t.co/FRgwzoe8bp
🎙️New #CounterPod | Co-hosts and CEP Senior Advisors @NotThatBigIan & @EFittonBrown discuss Ballymena unrest; Israel-Iran conflict; extremism in UK prisons; and Tunisia terror attacks anniversary.
https://t.co/FRgwzoe8bp
🎙️#CounterPod Season 5 Premiere Out Now!
@NotThatBigIan & @EFittonBrown kick off the new season with a look at incidents involving football crowds in Liverpool and Paris; the Houthi threat to Red Sea shipping; and more. Listen below.
https://t.co/VawYRN4v0X
Absolutely monstrous injustice. @NotThatBigIan, we should discuss #TwoTierPolicing, #twotierjustice and #TwoTierKeir on #CounterPod.
17 years after Parliament abolished blasphemy against Christianity, the courts have brought it back for Islam.
Sir Keir Starmer once defended a woman who trampled on the American flag.
Yet, today, faced with a man fined for burning a Koran, he melts into apparent silence.
So it’s free speech for flag-burners, but criminal records for Koran-burners? The double standard could not be starker: this is two-tier justice, made to measure for Two-Tier Keir’s Britain.
Hamit Coskun’s fate is grotesque. He was allegedly stabbed in broad daylight by an enraged zealot for burning a religious book and hauled before a judge while his alleged assailant will not face trial until 2027. The Kurdish-Armenian atheist, protesting President Erdogan, was knifed, kicked, and spat on outside Turkey’s London consulate, yet it is only he who now carries a criminal record.
Had Coskun torched a Bible outside Apostolic Nunciature (the Vatican’s Embassy) while shouting abuse about Christianity, does anyone seriously believe the CPS would have rushed to press charges? Would the police even have turned up? Their own hate-crime guidance celebrates satire, mockery and irreverence – unless, it seems, the target is Islam. Parliament did not legislate for such religious privilege; officials have conjured it out of thin air.
It could have been even worse. My campaign alongside the Free Speech Union forced the CPS to dump its farcical charge that Coskun had harassed “the religious institution of Islam”. Even so, their revised charge still criminalises the robust denunciation of ideas. This is the rebirth of a blasphemy law, smuggled in through the back door.
The charge against Coskun, Section 5 of the Public Order Act, was meant to tackle threatening or abusive behaviour directed at real people present in real time. In 2013, Parliament tightened the law so that ordinary insult would no longer suffice. The CPS has now expanded that provision into a blasphemy clause. If book-burning during a political protest is re-defined as “disorder”, then any vigorous criticism of Islam – or indeed any religion – is at risk. The judgment sets a chilling precedent: the more “offended” a crowd claims to be, the more likely the state might be to punish the speaker.
Coskun’s appeal against the conviction must, as @KemiBadenoch has said, be successful. To see where this is heading, look no further than Batley Primary School teacher still in hiding – his life shattered – for sharing a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed. Parliament must strike back so that the authorities and our courts have no doubt of Parliament’s protection of free speech.
My colleague, @NJ_Timothy, has produced a Bill that will bar prosecutors and judges from reviving blasphemy in any guise. I will support it unequivocally, and I challenge the Government benches to support it. Ministers who claim to cherish free speech must prove it. Let the Bill progress, or admit they are willing to trade our liberties for the transient comfort of avoiding offence.
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