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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 21, 2024
The tide of censorship, Orwellian word-wrangling, and prosecution for speech or peaceful behavior has been rising in the United Kingdom for years.…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 12, 2024
Many readers who sensed the bleakness, the grayness, and the sheer uniformity of George Orwell’s dystopian London (renamed Airstrip One) in his novel…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 17, 2021
Continuing the legacy of the Pythons and his own thoughtful work, writer, director, animator, actor Terry Gilliam has risen above the censorious…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 13, 2020
Continuing his effort to support freedom of expression and debate, comic actor and writer Rowan Atkinson has joined numerous other UK-based creatives…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 13, 2020
A few weeks ago, I did a piece and a video covering the BBC’s “memory-hole-ing” of one of the most hilarious episodes of England’s top comedy series…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 15, 2020
It’s happened. The dystopian future that many dreaded is here, thanks to the anti-creative, pencil-pushing, screen-swiping, social justice whiner…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 23, 2019
The Brits in government keep doing it. They keep denying reality, as if living in a fantasy world constructed by Tolkien or C.S. Lewis. For…
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Nick Kangadis | April 24, 2018
Is it just me, or does the U.K. completely suck now? It’s become a Socialist haven where totalitarianism rules, and freedom is laughed at. Whether it…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 23, 2018
Folks who comment about rights and political-economics in various countries are often told something they already know: Great Britain does not have a…
Nick Kangadis | March 20, 2018
A prank that was meant as a joke — even if that joke is in poor taste — shouldn’t be judged by government. But, this is what happens when your…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 24, 2017
(Photo: William Murphy) Would you like to add another layer to the already Everest-sized mountain of evidence showing that socialists/collectivists…