Toby Young is a writer, social commentator - and one of the most provocative voices in Britain. In his thirty years in journalism, he founded The Modern Review with Julie Burchill in 1991, has spent over two decades at The Spectator, and is associate editor at Quillette magazine. His memoir of time spent at Vanity Fair in New York, \u2018How To Lose Friends and Alienate People\u2019 was turned into a Hollywood film. In this in-depth interview, Toby argues that the government-enforced lockdown has failed to balance public health with science and the sustainability of the economy, and his motivation to campaign against these \u201cdisproportionate measures;\u201d contends that so-called \u2018cancel culture\u2019 is a \u201cresurgence of Puritanism,\u201d and recalls his own \u2018cancellation\u2019 when he \u201clost five jobs to the Twitter mob;\u201d his experience encouraged him to set up the Free Speech Union to support those who are, in his opinion, fellow victims of the rising precariousness of free speech.