""At what point did we become North Korea?" That was the question Nigel Farage posed when asked by a US congressional committee about limitations on freedom of speech in the UK. He was condemning the "awful authoritarian situation we have sunk into", which he claimed had led to various arrests including that of Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan over his views on challenging "a trans-identified male" in "a female-only space"."
"When I interviewed his deputy, Richard Tice on Radio 4's Today, I asked him whether he really believed that UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was the same as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Three times I asked the question. Three times Tice swerved it, suggesting Farage was simply using "an analogy". But Farage is not alone in questioning how far restrictions to freedom of speech have gone in the UK."
Nigel Farage compared the UK to North Korea, arguing that limits on freedom of speech have produced an "awful authoritarian situation" leading to arrests, including Graham Linehan for challenging a "trans-identified male" in a "female-only space". Richard Tice avoided directly endorsing the comparison, calling it an "analogy". Concerns about free speech restrictions have grown since social media's rise and are intensifying now. US Vice-President JD Vance warned against a "very dark path" of lost free speech. Forbes editor Steve Forbes condemned a "plunge into the kind of speech censorship usually associated with tin pot Third World dictatorships", contrasting UK developments with US First Amendment protections.
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