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On being Insulted by Experts (and non-experts), and my evening with Russell Brand
Daily Mail
15 March 2012 3:48 PM
With reader comments
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Daily Mail
15 March 2012 3:48 PM
With reader comments
Well, not an evening, exactly, but a few joyous minutes, connected by some sort of electronic miracle of the kind that has become all too easy in the modern world. The occasion can be found in full at about 40 minutes into this YouTube link
I appear again at around one hour 48 minutes and also briefly at one hour and 54 minutes. And I’m not planning to rehearse arguments on drug legalisation which have been held many times here and can be found in detail in many indexed items, and the comment threads that follow them.
Mr Brand was one of three people that evening who chose to abuse me personally and crudely. Another was Julian Assange, a person I have never previously met and for whom I feel, in general terms, some sympathy. If he wants to call me lavatory-wall names, that’s his privilege. But once again he offered no serious counter to my point. And, like Mr Brand, he received the general support of the audience for behaving in this way. The third was the extraordinarily over-rated lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, who – on every occasion when I have debated him – has shown himself to be rather poor at reasoned debate.
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