Rowan Atkinson is indeed a great supporter of free speech.

Re the Republican /Democrat controversy I just stumbled on a quotation from American Socialist Eugene Debs "The differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties involve no issue, no principle in which the working class have any interest".

This quote seems to nail it for me.    Eugene Debs is said to be a hero of one Bernie Sanders...so called "independent" who is in reality, more of a Democrat than the Dems.

Sanders seems to me to be someone who should be assisting the left to form an alternative to the corporate parties, but in fact appears to be the token "Socialist" who tempts people who would look for a genuine alternative,into voting for parties opposed to their aspirations....Ake