Andrew Doyle: ‘If you support freedom of speech, you have to support people's right to say the things you don't much want to hear'
'I've seen people getting very, very angry about the cancellation of Kneecap,' says Andrew Doyle, the Derry-born writer, political commentator and satirist. 'These are the same people who have called for similar cancellations of others.
'And I'd like to think they would realise that they've sowed the seeds of that by pushing for cancellations when they don't approve [of something] — or whatever it might be. But I'm not sure they've really grasped the hypocrisy.'
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