What happens at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park nowadays? It was a traditional platform for free speech.
Sunday afternoons in the park were the best attended. Impressionable minds could listen to all sorts of people, practising to get involved in activism or politics.
The custom could have served as a template for folks in other walks of life.
A lot of communication feels somehow stifled or restricted, perhaps due to the small business ethos of several decades ago.
Making sense of ideas propagated by politicians is hard work.
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