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Does Sainsbury’s Agree That Most Of Their Customers Are Racist?

I recently wrote about my issues with the UK’s second largest supermarket throwing its hat into the ring of race based identity politics. Since then, courtesy of some ‘leaked’ internal

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BOOK REVIEW: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

I make a habit of reading books and articles that I expect to find disagreeable. This serves to test my convictions as I bounce them off opposing views and discover

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The Grenfell effigy joke video is sick. So is a society that arrests people for it

Back in June 2017, the British public watched in horror as a North Kensington Tower block went up in flames. 72 people died as a result of the accidental fire,

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The ECHR Ruling On ‘Defaming’ Muhammad Is An Anti-Muslim Act

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that ‘defaming’ the Prophet Muhammad “goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate” and “could stir up prejudice and put

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Listen To Stephen Knight’s Opening Remarks at The #BattleOfIdeas 2018

I was very pleased to be at the Battle Of Ideas this year to speak about religion. The festival itself consists of many, many, (many!) public discussions and debates with

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VIDEO: Stephen Knight & David Smalley Discuss #Mythcon V & Politics Backstage

It was great to spend some time with David Smalley last week at Mythcon. We were on two panels together and we also managed to find some time to sit

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VIDEO: How has the political climate divided the atheist community? Full Panel

I was in Milwaukee last week for Mythcon V. It was a fantastic event with a diverse roster of speakers and atendees. I had the honour of moderating the first

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Ep#122 – Muhammad Syed – Hope

This week on The #GSPodcast Stephen Knight speaks to co-founder of Ex-Muslims Of North America (EXMNA.org), Muhammad Syed (@MoTheAtheist). Muhammad will be telling us all about the upcoming ‘From Islam

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Ep#121 – Vanity Von Glow

This week on The #GSPodcast Stephen Knight speaks to comedian and cabaret performer Thom, AKA Vanity Von Glow (@VanityVonGlow). We talk about the controversy and fallout from their appearance at

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VIDEO: My Appearance On ‘Mythinformed’

I had a great time on Mythinformed with Brian and Sean. We spoke about the atheist ‘community’, Islamism, Ex-Muslims, free speech, the UK and much, much more. I’m really looking

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Where Is Ryan Bell’s Crowd-Funded Documentary?

Back in 2013 a Christian pastor named Ryan Bell generated a lot of publicity and support from within atheist circles after realising that dedicating your existence to god wasn’t the

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Video Report From ‘Day For Freedom’

I headed down to the ‘Day For Freedom’ event in London on Sunday 6th May. The event featured a host of controversial speakers that pulled in a surprisingly diverse crowd.

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Protest March For Count Dankula: Speeches and Interviews

I was in London on Monday to report from the free speech protest in honour of ‘Count Dankula’. For those of you who don’t know what that is all about,

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Ep#112 – Ricky Gervais Returns – Humanity

This week on The #GSPodcast Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) welcomes the return of comedian Ricky Gervais (@RickyGervais). Ricky’s new stand-up ‘Humanity’ comes to Netflix on March 13th. He talks about how he

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Jordan Peterson, Cathy Newman and Online Abuse

I was sent an early copy of Jordan Peterson’s book ’12 Rules for Life: An Antidote To Chaos’ and just finished reading it moments before tapping this out. Images of

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Ep#106 – Tom Wilson – Extremist Groups and Counter-Terrorism

This week on The #GSPodcast Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) welcomes Tom Wilson, Fellow at The Henry Jackson Society. Tom specialises in counter-terrorism strategy and extremist groups. We talk about the political left,

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The ‘Conceptual Penis’ and Its ‘Pay-To-Publish’ Critics

CORRECTIONS/UPDATES – 28th May 2017 It appears Ketan Joshi is a more common name than I knew, and as a result this blog was originally published with reference to

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My Appearance On BBC’s ‘The Big Questions’

I always make sure I tune in to The Big Question on the BBC for some entertaining religious debate. I’ve been in the audience a few times, but last Saturday

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No, Westminster University Isn’t ‘Shredding All The Qur’ans’ Because Of ‘Prevent’

The popular monotheistic religions have an established history of violent outbursts in response to perceived transgressions. One faith in particular stands out at this moment in time for its refusal

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Iggy The Stockholm Dog

Twitter’s ability to bring you the latest news before ‘the news’ gets around to it can be mentally (and emotionally) hazardous if your areas of interest are religious fanaticism

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Taking The Myth – May 2022 Edition

This week on Taking The Myth, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) and Iram Ramzan of sedaa.org (@Iram_Ramzan) discuss all the big topics.

0:00 Intro
0:27 Finally blocked by Owen Jones on Twitter
2:49 Reports of a school girl bullied for disagreeing with gender ideology
13:36 Covering a feminist free speech event in Manchester, death threats, counter-protests.
20:31 The Netflix memo: Has Netflix decided to push back to ‘woke’ employees?
26:00 The impending release of Ricky Gervais’s ‘Supernature’ special on Netflix
29:53 The white supremacist mass shooting in Buffalo, USA.
45:28 Should a terrorist’s manifesto be published by the news media?
47:43 The Taliban orders women to cover their face.
54:05 New UK police chief pledges to concentrate on real crime and not to be the ‘thought police’.
01:00:00 Audience Questions: Andrew Doyle’s new book? Elon Musk Twitter takeover?
01:04:19 A suspicious increase in Twitter followers for conservative and controversial accounts?

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Taking The Myth – April 2022 Edition

This week on Taking The Myth, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) and Iram Ramzan of sedaa.org (@Iram_Ramzan) discuss all the big topics.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Iram and suspicious kitchen activities.
1:08 Stephen finally gets Covid
4:16 Will Smith assaults Chris Rock at The Oscars
11:12 Trans female police officers are authorised to strip search biological women.
22:21 Man gets suspended jail sentence for ‘offensive’ video of Grenfell Tower model
28:20 Women’s clothes shop Monsoon apologies for refusing a non-binary customer access to the changing rooms.
37:39 Elon Musk and the Twitter takeover bid
47:51 Islamist terrorist convicted for the murder of MP David Amess
58:20 Audience questions: Is Putin ill? What does Boris Johnson need to do to lose his job?

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Ep#187 – Katy Montgomerie and Debbie Hayton debate gender and trans rights.

This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) is joined by Katy Montgomerie (@KatyMontgomerie) and Debbie Hayton (@DebbieHayton). Katy is an LGBT and atheist activist and Debbie is a journalist and physics teacher. They are both are transgender women; however they have very different opinions on the major talking points related to gender and trans rights.

0:00 Intro
1:11 What is a woman? Is there an objective definition? Should we be invoking intersex people in this argument?
21:34 Is sex binary?
23:20 Is Katy male or female?
29:06 What rights would trans people lose if they identified as ‘gender non-confirming’ instead of the opposite sex?
31:47 Why does this conversation always focus on women? Are women justified to fear an encroachment on their rights? What are the safeguarding concerns?
37:27 Can you change your sex?
40:12 The problem of men talking about what it means to be female
41:02 Is it mostly men that have concerns with self-ID/trans issues?
43:34 The WDI declaration and use of women’s spaces.
50:52 India Willoughby, misgendering and the chilling effect on free speech.
1:02:53 Final questions to each other

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Ep#187 – Katy Montgomerie and Debbie Hayton Debate gender ID

This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) is joined by Katy Montgomerie (@KatyMontgomerie) and Debbie Hayton (@DebbieHayton). Katy is an LGBT and atheist activist and Debbie is a journalist and physics teacher. They are both are transgender women; however they have very different opinions on the major talking points related to gender and trans rights.

0:00 Intro
1:11 What is a woman? Is there an objective definition? Should we be invoking intersex people in this argument?
21:34 Is sex binary?
23:20 Is Katy male or female?
29:06 What rights would trans people lose if they identified as ‘gender non-confirming’ instead of the opposite sex?
31:47 Why does this conversation always focus on women? Are women justified to fear an encroachment on their rights? What are the safeguarding concerns?
37:27 Can you change your sex?
40:12 The problem of men talking about what it means to be female
41:02 Is it mostly men that have concerns with self-ID/trans issues?
43:34 The WDI declaration and use of women’s spaces.
50:52 India Willoughby, misgendering and the chilling effect on free speech.
1:02:53 Final questions to each other

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Taking The Myth – March 2022 Edition

This week on Taking The Myth, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) and Iram Ramzan of sedaa.org (@Iram_Ramzan) discuss all the big topics.

0:00 Intro
0:16 The Weather….
1:38 The Russian invasion of Ukraine
9:36 Jussie Smollett sentenced for hate crime hoax
16:28 Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas winning competitions
30:05 Maajid Nawaz continues down the conspiracy rabbit hole with Ukrainian ‘crisis actors’ tweet.
41:35 Ofsted downgrades school for too much of a focus on ‘social justice’.
44:59 The New York Times podcast series on the Islamist ‘trojan horse’ school controversy in the UK.
55:13 Ofcom banning Russia Today in the UK

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Ep#186 – Dr. Sohom Das – Mental Health and Ideology

This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) welcomes Dr. Sohom Das (@Dr_S_Das). Sohom is a Consultant forensic psychiatrist. They talk about mental illness and ideology.

0:00 Intro
0:22 What does Sohom do?
1:30 What is schizophrenia?
3:07 Can people recover from schizophrenia?
4:08 The difference between psychologist and psychiatrist.
5:50 Psychiatry as a science and its dark past
8:17 Society’s attitudes to mental illness
11:25 Why pursue this type of career?
14:11 Religious ‘delusion’ and mental illness.
16:33 Mental illness and suicide bombing.
19:52 How does our understanding of mental illness inform concepts of ‘free will’?
25:42 Spice: Drug use and mental health
28:36 Cannabis and mental health issues.
36:04 The ‘insanity please’.
39:40 Personal safety when assessing patients
45:03 What is the notorious Broadmoor Hospital like?
46:46 Conspiracy theorists
49:28 Soham’s upcoming book ‘In Two Minds’.

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Order ‘In Two Minds’ book: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/dr-sohom-das/in-two-minds/9780751583786/

Dr Sohom Das’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPR1k3dnTWhSfezRnDHEJKg

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