Entries by Mark Gullick

The BBC: A Bridge Too Far?

A film edit is sometimes known as a “bridge”, a term usually used for audio rather than visual content, and it may be that the BBC’s recent creative editing of a speech by Donald Trump is a bridge too far. The two versions of Trump’s now-infamous speech on January 6, 2020 —- both the original […]

Who are the Fabian Society?

An old English story, part-joke and part-apocrypha, tells of a retired American couple who take a vacation to England. Visiting the famous university city of Cambridge, they admire the ancient architecture before walking into the courtyard of one of the famous colleges. Admiring the perfect lawn, the pair spy a grounds-keeper and ask him how […]

Whatever Happened to Agnosticism?

The rise of secular society in the West seems undeniable, and although the 1960s may not be the decade which created secularism, it certainly fed it an accelerant. It was not just sexual and social liberation combining with new-found wealth which favored materialism over spiritualism, however, and even the Anglican Church was beginning to have […]

British Free Speech and J.S. Mill

Article 19 is an organization which monitors global free speech, and it issues an annual report which grades countries into five categories of freedom of expression: Open, Less Restricted, Restricted, Highly Restricted, and In Crisis. In its most recent report, the United Kingdom has been demoted from the highest category to the second for the […]