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Archive for October, 2025

BSA is still right

Tuesday, October 21st, 2025

This is PS to the post below. I’ve now read what Judge Harvey and Liam Hehir have to say about this (and have had a chance to debate Judge Harvey on The Platform). I have to accept that the issue is not as clear-cut as I’ve suggested. But neither is it as clear-cut as they […]

The Broadcasting Standards Authority is right

Thursday, October 16th, 2025

The BSA has agreed to consider a complaint against internet-based radio station The Platform. This has triggered a cascade of tizzies from Sean Plunket, Winston Peters, David Seymour, the Free Speech Union, David Farrar, and others. Plunket called the complainant an ignorant “plonker”. Peters accused the BSA of “acting like some Soviet era Stasi”. Farrar […]