FREEDOM IN FOCUS

Greetings from Strasbourg! In this video, I recap a few points I made at a hearing of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 23rd April) organised by the Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact. At the hearing, I suggested we should give greater scope for local actors to experiment with different solutions to housing, healthcare etc. You can share this video by re-posting on substack and X . It i...

You can help me share this information about the emerging censorship regime in Europe by sharing this video widely, by re-posting on substack and X . It is also available on Youtube . Your speech is being censored behind closed doors by the European Commission. Now, when I say “your,” I don’t just mean citizens of the European Union; I mean citizens across the world. Anyone who is using a social m...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidthunder.substack.com Immigration is now a major political issue. And one of the obstacles to a proper, transparent public debate about this issue is a series of myths about immigration that are perpetuated by the political class and by many journalists. So in this video, I'd like to bust six myths about immigration. Myth #1: It’s b...

You can share this video on Twitter/X or view it on Youtube . Some potentially huge news for free speech, as Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has recently announced that he will be significantly scaling back the censorship of “misinformation” and “hate speech” on Meta. This is something to be welcomed, irrespective of what you might think of Zuckerberg's motives or the timing of this decision , b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidthunder.substack.com Feel free to view and share this video on Youtube and X . "The line separating good and evil passes not between political parties but right through the human heart." So said Russian author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Many people commenting on the U.S. presidential elections would do well to ponder the...

Last year, with all major political parties backing it, I assumed Ireland's Hatred & Hate Offences Bill was unstoppable. Now, I see that David can beat Goliath. Goliath will be back very soon, but for now, he has been sent away with his tail between his legs. In April 2023, the Hatred and Hate Offences Bill passed through the lower house of the Irish Parliament by an overwhelming majority: 110 vot...

The W.H.O. has declared a “public health emergency of international concern,” in relation to an upsurge of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa. It does not take much digging to discover that monkeypox should not be high up on most people’s list of things to worry about. Here's the information I got from a quick inquiry using ChatGPT , and w...

Last Monday (12/8), EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton published an open letter to Elon Musk on Twitter/X, warning Musk to take measures to contain “harmful content.” Addressing himself to Musk, Mr Breton said he was writing “in the context of recent events in the United Kingdom and in relation to the planned broadcast on your platform of a live conversation between a US presidential c...

Have you ever noticed how these days, during a public crisis, be it a pandemic or rioting in the streets, that the knee jerk reaction of Western politicians is to recommend further restrictions on speech? So now, with the rioting in the UK, we see Keir Starmer coming out and saying that we have to get tough on hate speech and we have to prosecute people who have been guilty of sharing hateful cont...

In this video, you will find my reflection, in 5 minutes, on the significance of three mayors’ attempts to shut down a conservative conference in Brussels this week. Click here to share this video on Twitter/X, and help me get the word out about this critical free speech victory for Europe. For my latest post on this matter, see below: This is an entirely reader-supported publication. Free subscri...

The New Year is a good time to take stock. So let's take stock of where we're at in terms of the cause of freedom. I suspect we're in for some epic political battles for freedom in 2024 and 2025. Obviously the outcome is far from guaranteed, but I'm hopeful and cautiously optimistic for the future. Before explaining the reasons for my optimism, it's important to underline just how serious the chal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidthunder.substack.com Please find above a 4 minute excerpt from my in-depth, 45 minute interview with Jan Jekielek on Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders . The full paywalled interview can be found here . Paying subscribers can access the full interview for free, below:

In this interview from 8th September 2022, James Freeman, former MEP, gets my take on the recently enacted Digital Services Act . Tune in to this in-depth interview to learn more about the mechanisms through which the DSA enhances the EU Commission’s powers over the digital sphere in Europe. The full interview can be found at The Freeman Report. You can support my public interest research and medi...

The EU has drifted far away from the lofty vision of its founding fathers. In recent years, we've seen several regressive, anti-freedom initatives coming out of the EU Commission. Sadly, the EU Commission is now at war with our liberties: 1. Digital Services Act (curtailing free expression) 2. Covid Certificates (bio-surveillance) 3. Support for expropriation of farmland If you enjoyed this episod...

In this 20 minute interview on the Niall Boylan Podcast (July 24th 2023), I take climate activists and scientists to task for failing to explain in a rational way the nature of the climate emergency we allegedly face, and the reason we should believe that their solutions will avert a catastrophe (original episode can be found here ). Watch this interview on Youtube: This is a public episode. If yo...

In this episode of FREEDOM IN FOCUS, I discuss the predicament of a citizen who realises he cannot trust official sources like CDC and WHO to tell the truth and report information impartially. If you like this episode, here are three ways you can support my work: 1. Become a paying subscriber to my Freedom Blog, for just 5 EUR per month or 50 EUR per year. 2. Buy me a coffee on ko-fi.com. 3. Becom...

During the pandemic, many of us were maligned and ridiculed as "conspiracy theorists" for defending long held democratic values and for stating elementary scientific truths such as the facts of natural immunity. In this edition of the FREEDOM IN FOCUS podcast, I discuss some of the truths unveiled by the "conspiracy theorists" and argue they are owed an apology by those who bad-mouthed them, ridic...

Many thanks to Patrick Henningsen for hosting me on TNT Radio for a discussion of Ireland’s new hate speech legislation. Here’s the original link to the episode (27 minutes): https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-cemm9-140615e Find me on Youtube , Twitter , and Telegram . My blog and video work costs time and money. To help me out with my costs, and access subscriber-exclusive content, consider upgrading...

In spite of the wave of enthusiasm for community masking among public health elites and governments across the Western world, and repeated assurances by public health authorities like WHO, Fauci and the CDC that masks were critical for combating the spread of Covid-19, over two years of population-wide mask mandates across a large swathe of the Western world have not produced better disease outcom...

We, citizens of the West, have just lived through a political and constitutional coup. Our political and constitutional systems were usurped in 2020 and mobilised in the service of revolutionary ends completely at odds with the values of constitutional democracy. But unlike violent military coups, in which the levers of power are seized by armed forces, this particular revolution was relatively bl...

Thousands of commentators, some very well known, and others not so well known, have been rotting in “Twitter jail” for months and in some cases years , due to Twitter’s incredibly politicised and ideologised content moderation policies, which really came into their own during the Covid pandemic (here’s a description of my own case , which amply illustrates the level to which Twitter’s moderation p...

In this episode I share an in-depth interview I did with podcaster and psychologist Pierre Gallaz on 21st September 2022, looking back on the public response to Covid-19. In that interview, hosted by Substack here , we discussed a wide range of topics, including: * the ethics of vaccine mandates * the importance of trusting citizens during a public crisis * the vital importance of individualised,...

In this episode of Thunder Off Script (recorded on Tuesday, 22nd September 2022), I suggest that we should not be complacent about the future of representative democracy. History demonstrates that the drift toward corruption and despotism is only reversed when brave citizens put their reputations, livelihoods, or personal well-being at risk in order to defend the freedom of all. You can also find...

In this episode of Thunder Off Script (Thursday, 25th August 2022), I'd like to discuss a peculiar sensation of disconnection from the "reality" being fed to me by official sources and mainstream media over the past couple of years, a sensation reminiscent of what happened to the protagonist of The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey. This episode can also be found on Spotify . If you would like to gi...

In this episode of Thunder Off Script (1st July 2022), I discuss the irresponsible invocation of public health emergencies, and the hypocrisy of political leaders’ hand-wringing over the recent overturning of Roe v Wade. You can also find this episode on Spotify . I depend on the support of readers like you to keep producing and delivering high quality of issues that affect your freedom and mine....