Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District

Establishm­ent says what is free speech

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The criticism directed at Rosie Duffield MP for daring to appear on Russia Today is laughable - or at least it would be if it were not yet another example of people professing belief in freedom of access to a variety of opinions then trying to prevent this.

I suppose the inference we are supposed to draw is that the BBC tells the truth, while Russia Today fabricates a web of propaganda and lies? Such a mindset is best described as naive.

Perhaps Gazette readers should listen to what the BBC tells them, listen to what Russia Today tells them, and then make their own minds up.

This broadcaste­r produces some thought-provoking programmes, not least the one presented by the inimitable Max Keiser (the ‘Keiser Report’) which has covered phenomena such as the 2008

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