Freedom of Speech is a great cultural asset which of course ought to be defended: people should have the right to say whatever they want, no matter how much others may disagree. I usually hold that to be quite obvious. However, I think problems crop up when it comes to airtime on national Television. I was at my local building society earlier, where they had a TV playing the BBC News channel. Fortunately it was on mute, but I could see Nigel Farage yapping his puss-filled head off. I instantly felt appalled, as I always do whenever I see the face of that utter disgrace to human civilisation. Not only was I appalled by what I knew he would be saying, which from what I had read would be abhorrent enough; but also at the fact that the Beeb were giving the charlatan airtime he did not deserve. This is a man whose lies conned the country into voting to leave the EU, something manifestly against our best interests; he knowingly ferments division and hate, and stirs up xenophobia.

I firmly believe Farage should be rotting in a jail cell for what he has done; but there he was, yapping his head off on national TV as if it was his own Nuremberg Rally, or as if he was some kind of great statesman rather than the lying, hate-spewing scumbag he is. After all, had this arrogant bigot not been awarded so much attention a decade ago we would all still be enjoying our rights as European citizens, and everything he spewed during the 2016 Referendum was proven to be complete bullshit, so why do we still have to listen to him? Reform is still only a fringe, minority party which no sensible, educated, intelligent person pays attention to, yet the Beeb somehow sees it as a valid opposition. If we are ever to escape the quagmire of division and animosity society currently finds itself in, we need to stop giving such people airtime they do not deserve.