The scrappiest mish mash of a few dashed out summaries of various linked issues regarding fundamental freedoms to express, publish, tell stories in our own names. And be rude if one must. I never am. Except to those whom take the public shilling – and there are more ways than one of doing that – which must include self reverential false PR in public money subsidised periodicals,  online worlds, or indeed real life market squares   - a speciality of my own region.  And also have our tragedies and occasional victory  told by tomorrow’s chip paper – tears merging with the grease . If I sound like a hothead from Breitbart this is not so and am the opposite. Those who do wish to kill me for my own occasional quiet words are because mine are all quite Corbynite and egalitarian. And very very “I like brown folk,  and all the birds and bees and wildflowers and there is no such thing as  a weed, only food for some crit in the ecosystems they are destroying even here......” ...”and no, brown folk did not get more covid [like every damn so called educated fool with blame the brown tendencies for many a mile has stated my way for 18 months  ..] ... those living harder less healthy lives no matter what colour got more of the bug. And that’s what the science said from day one... i am an expert.” it is extraordinary how many very unpleasant scowls one gets for a few of these little  statements...

In fact as the majority of these lands is indeed still at least semi provincial, where ‘bigotry’ still prevails – oh my it does .., every London literati of any colour should put a bit of back in and figure how this may be rolled out, because  the good folk who will stand up against all of that need to know it is their duty to respond – ideally with poise and grace, and anyone who challenges that Enlightenment value fundamental needs educating, why. They too may one day need their right to reply also enshrined in law.. AND accepted as that by the ‘culture’  - i.e. bar room ignorant gossip .. when their kids too are carted off to the doghome for good  just because they accidentally dropped one of the horse tranquilizer cigarettes in their soup... everyone deserves a second chance or at least a fairest possible hearing, which ONLY the oxygen of sunlight can better assure. Cos what happens a lot of the time, still...you wouldn’t wish on your worst personal troll...

But guess what, as a free thinker drawn towards those with sceptical better minds, it is really interesting how so many middle aged armchair opiners who i know full well  two years ago would be fairly sneering at subjects like 'free speech', because sometimes i raised the issue; now.. a fair section of them parrot out "under threat" ... and a fair few will go and see a half decent movie   billed as asking some deeper questions on just that now extremely fashionable subject....maybe even buy the book.