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Today's www.thorholt.com guest is Dominic Frisby. Dominic is a MoneyWeek financial writer and comedian.  Life After the State and Bitcoin The Future of Money He's a Comedian (a show about tax?), actor of unrecognized genius and voice of many things… @DominicFrisby  www.DominicFrisby.com  

Today's guest on www.thorholt.com Write With Courage show guest is Martin Pashley. Martin has written for the Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Golf Illustrated and…Playboy. Along with renowned Photographer James Cheadle, Martin is Co-founder of Union Magazine. What is Union Magazine you ask? What is Union Magazine you ask? Good question! Union Magazine is an independent print magazine - main focus being subcultures – with in-depth journalism and superb photography from all over the world. The journal is aimed at the inquisitive ones that have a lust for life, knowledge and fringe culture. They've featured stories on the underground black biker scene in Baltimore, National Socialists in Arizona, white squatter camps of South Africa, and Bikers sticking shopping trolleys up lamp posts… Find out more Union Magazine www.unionmag.co.uk Twitter @UnionFeatures  On National Socialists in Arizona - We just want to hear their stories... after twenty minutes you just end up having be

Today's www.thorholt.com Write With Courage guest is Flemming Rose: Author of Tyranny of Silence… Flemming is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, a Journalist, and Author. His latest book in English is Tyranny of Silence. After 14 years of working as a foreign correspondent in Russia and the USA, he returned home to Denmark in 2004 to pursue a more stable life! Find out more about Flemming and his work http://www.tyrannyofsilence.net    - What is blasphemy to one man may sound as poetry to another man - Making a newspaper is always the art of the possible! - The point here is that context often gets lost in translation… the cartoons did not come out of the blue…it was not something I invented… - We must Focus on the true original meaning of tolerance, not free speech - It's a consequence of the digital world…creates possibility of misunderstandings and manipulations…and humor is always very context dependent! Even Charlie Hebdo will not be understood in the UK

Today's www.thorholt.com Write With Courage guest is Kelly Baader. Kelly runs the Podcast, Godly M. B. A. Podcast (Marketing Beyond Ambition) which aims to provide Inspiring, Actionable, and Successful biblical marketing strategies and Life Applications over at www.kellybaader.com  Kelly is @kellybaader on Twitter. - What is the (your) focus? Even if there are people out there who read the (your) book, or listen to the (your) podcast, that I (you) make a difference that day...then who's to say I (you) cannot do it? 

Today's www.thorholt.com Write With Courage guest is Peter Thomson... especially for those of you who write, but find making money from your writing to be a challenge… today's guest is The UK's Most Prolific Information Product Creator… and a super live speaker and storyteller… check out his Achiever's Club http://www.theachieversclub.com  8 Books, 100 audio programmes, 100 video programmes. 18 tips booklets, 156 audio newsletters, 701 Ezines over the last 13+ years… And he's never once suffered from writer's block! Find out more http://www.PeterThomson.com  I've benefited from and still share things I've learned from Peter, years after first meeting him and attending one of his superb seminars... A couple of my favorite Peter Thomson quotes  -You'll never consistently do who you aren't  -If you don't ask, people can't say yes… And just wait till you hear which writer has had the most impact on him - controversial!           

Today's guest on Write With Courage Podcast at www.thorholt.com is Independent Man. He's a skeptic, noise sifter, market watcher and dabbler and aspiring flaneur - that's 'a man who saunters around observing society' – yes I had to look that up! Independent Man (@scroweman on Twitter) only been producing scripts and recording political and social commentary for 10 months, yet has over 21,773 subscribers and close to 2 million channel views, despite operating in a niche topic area.   Checking out Independent Man on YouTube you will find he's made some videos on controversial topics, and we will explore why this means he doesn't use his real name (yet!)  Some examples of his Video titles:  ' My Favourite Marxist' (Mine too) Brendan O'Neill of SpikedOnline  'BuzzFeed News is Cancer & Outrage Everywhere'  'The State of Campus Free Speech' His thoughts on freedom of speech - It's amazing to me that we live in this era when people are just so blasé about fr

Today's Write With Courage www.thorholt.com guest is Gavin Ashenden. Gavin is an author, theologian, newspaper columnist, pilgrim, ex-academic & BBC radio presenter; occasional opera singer, anti-egalitarian, anti-fascist, emigre...and up until very recently, Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen! Read more at www.ashenden.org  Gavin on Twitter @Gavinashenden  On multiculturalism - If you have a melting pot is an exciting mix but no glue... with no glue you come close to anarchy. On the response of the West to Middle Eastern Christians being persecuted: We don't like reality because it's uncomfortable, and we live in a culture where we've become very good at comforting ourselves... so there's been a kind of lack of moral courage over the last fifty years.      

Today's www.ThorHolt.com Write With Courage guest is Claire Fox @fox_claire Claire is a regular panellist on the BBC's Moral Maze and wrote the book, I Find That Offensive (2016) Claire is director of the Institute of Ideas, founded in 2000 to provide a forum committed to robust public debate in which ideas can be interrogated, argued for and fought over.  The institute of Ideas challenges knee-jerk orthodoxies and ensures new generations look behind headlines and avoid over-simplistic conclusions on difficult topics. To this end, http://www.instituteofideas.com organise a range of high-profile public events http://www.battleofideas.org.uk  On writing - It was the sucker punch...recognising that writing was able to completely devastate you, but, brilliantly, make you understand the World in a completely different way. On herself - I'm not a natural writer, and partly that's because of vanity! On writing versus public speaking - Writing is a far more difficult discipline than speaking

Today's guest on www.thorholt.com Write With Courage is Alan Muir. Alan is the Editor of the Scottish Sun Newspaper @ScottishSun on Twitter On the profession of Journalism - I always thought newspapers could be tools for good. On starting as a journalist - Get into the local paper, get involved in the local community, get to know the people who are the decision makers, the law-makers, the people that have got their ears to the ground… On the future of Journalism – While the technology moves on and we're all wondering where we're going to be in the next 10-20 years, the basics I think, remain the same. Journalism relies on you being a people person and having the contacts to get the stories in the first place  

Todays www.thorholt.com/writer-podcast  guest is Joanna Williams @jowilliams293 Joanna is the Author of Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity (2016) and Consuming Higher Education (2012). She's a Writer, academic, and last but certainly not least, Joanna is education editor ‪@spikedonline  On Europe and Brexit - I just wanted to be able to vote out people who have control over my life. Being left wing doesn't automatically mean you are in favour of super-national institutions. On Free speech - Terms such as left and right are pretty much meaningless these days. Terms like Free Speech would not remotely have been seen as associated with the political right (in the 1950s)...it has gradually become the left who are more associated with censorship.     

Today's www.thorholt.com/writer-podcast/ guest is James Lindsay. James is an Author. His latest book is, 'Life in Light of Death' and  previous work includes, 'Everybody Is Wrong About God', and 'God Doesn't; We Do: Only Humans Can Solve Human Challenges' How he started writing - I got pissed off that for my entire life there's all this...stuff about religion that I've never been allowed to say... I started to write it down and the next thing I know I'd written 200,000 words! James Is a thinker, not a philosopher and used to be a professional mathematician. Catch him @GodDoesnt on Twitter.  

Today's guest on www.thorholt.com is Sheikh Dr Muhammad Al-Hussaini. He's a Imam who famously defended so-called 'hate' Pastor James McConnell. Muhammad is a Senior Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Westminster Institute, and also runs a rather wonderful YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/muhammadalhussaini based around his passion of playing the Irish Fiddle and traditional sean-nós singing. Catch him on Twitter @MYAlHussaini  Muhammad Al-Hussaini - I'm very committed to honesty because there's a huge trust deficit built up in the minds of western audiences. - We must be able, through relationship to debate and discuss and disagree about stuff. - I've not had problems from Muslims so much as from liberal white campaigners! - the answer to bad speech is always better speech and more speech. It's important that we debate and discuss difficult texts within Islam and Judeo-Christian traditions. there's a real risk that the only solution we have, academic freedom,

Today's guest on www.thorholt.com Write With Courage show is Dr. Frank Furedi (@FurediByte) Frank is an Author, commentator, sociologist – he writes for SpikedOnline which is how I discovered him. Frank's most recent book, What's Happened To The University? was published by Routledge on 17th oct 2016… he's also done a very interesting TEDx talk, Dare to Know - which affirms the value of experimentation and risk. Freedom and open debate is often seen as a threat, because when you exercise freedom it does have uncertain consequences.  Frank highly recommends, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship.

www.thorholt.com talks to Simone Rodan Benzaquen. Simone is AJC's Paris Director. She previously served as adviser to the Ambassador for Human Rights in the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. She holds a law degree from Kings College London, is currently working on her first book and has written for Le Figaro, Atlantico, Le Monde and Huffington Post. On what is her life guiding force, Simone quoted ex-French President Mitterrand - You can't do anything against the will of one person!  On Jews life in France-  anti-Semitism is obviously  a problem for minorities, but at the end of the day it is a problem for all... if a democracy is incapable of defending its' minorities anymore, something is profoundly wrong.  

www.thorholt.com guest today is Hunter Swogger. New Grad Hunter, is a writer (Heatstreet.com and Allthink.com) and proven viral video genius with upwards of 6.5 million direct views on one video alone and 30 + Million if ripped Facebook videos are included. Hunter's Melania Trump Rick Roll video currently sits at 1,841,923 views. Hunter runs the swogblog at swogblog.me and also run's Milo Yiannopoulos YouTube channel. On speaking up as a college conservative - It is so freaking worth it to speak out. The vast majority of the left's power is in silencing you before you even start talking On creating the Milo Yiannopoulos versus Julie Bindel debate at University of Michigan. - I was in my senior year of engineering degree and was only taking 6 credits. I wanted something to go out on a bang with. That's how I found Milo. I was so happy to find Milo. Milo was such a complete firebrand and was causing such vitriol from the left. That's what you want, if you want to get attention to a cause you need to b

www.thorholt.com talks to CH4 Documentary Maker and Writer Mark Sparrow @Markgsparrow  "Don't use long words and don't write for other writers..just get your message across with the greatest economy you can"    

Thor from www.thorholt.com talks to an 'Indigenous Jewish Rights Writer' and Settler living in Israel. Despite his title Brian of LONDON, he seems to be based in Tel Aviv, and is a contributor at ‪http://Israellycool.com  The Israelis are the only indigenous people who've successfully won their country back after centuries of conquest and exile - Brian of London.  

www.thorholt.com Today's guest is Gary Bell @GaryBellQC: One-time homeless drifter, ASDA forklift driver and Pork Farms production line worker-turned-defence Silk (Lawyer) and Writer. His preposterous (and funny – very funny!) life story is told in 'ANIMAL QC' and he writes semi-regularly for the Spectator, and has written for The Week, The Guardian and The Big Issue recently. "Just get round to it Thor. Everyone says they've got a book in them, but it just stays in them!"

http://www.thorholt.com/fear-can-be-helpful/  Fear can be helpful. At least The Rottweiler guard dogs we passed, helped calm me down, though... See http://www.IJM.org/  for more on cutting edge slave rescue work around the world.

www.thorholt.com Controversial Southern Conservative, Pro-Constitution, Pro-Gun Vlogger and Novel Author Bre Faucheux.    @Bre_Faucheux on Twitter   Bre's Controversial Writers and Diversity Video