Good afternoon, Insiders, Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter as we peer gravely across the pond to what many would term a free speech crisis. Read on or sign up here (preferably both).

Jimmy Kimmel Off Air But World Switches On

“Anything but one of them”: Jimmy Kimmel may have been taken off air, but around the world we are watching. In what feels one of the most serious challenges to the sacred nature of American free speech in the Donald Trump era (and that’s saying something), Kimmel has been indefinitely stood down from his ABC show after a monologue in which he said Trump’s followers were trying to position the man who killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk as “anything but one of them.” The monologue was loaded with nuance . ABC owner Disney’s swift decision

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