Journalist Investigated for Tweet Speaks Out - Allison Pearson

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Allison Pearson is a British journalist, author, and columnist. She joins us to discuss her recent visit by Essex Police on Remembrance Sunday over an "offensive tweet". *Follow Allison on X: https://x.com/AllisonPearson SPONSOR. Munk Debates - become a member for free at https://munkdebates.com Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.5	I was much happier being a free speech supporter in theory.
1:02.3	The practice turns out to be slightly unpleasant, but there we go.
1:07.0	Two very senior police inspectors, two former Home Secretary, a former Prime Minister,
1:12.7	and they all said, my tweet did not come near the threshold for a criminal investigation.
1:18.9	I don't think people realise just how outrageous this actually is.
1:23.3	I haven't particularly wanted to fight. I'm not brave, but I, some things you have to take a stand.
1:29.3	And many of us will fight to the death for this.
1:33.3	Alison Pearson, Britain's latest thought criminal.
1:38.3	Welcome to Trigonometry.
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