Take a look at yourself at Speaker's Corner

A Christian speaker with many disagreeing listeners around him

Speaker's Corner is an interesting place to go to on a Sunday. A bit scary too as there are so many speakers that are very much into their religion and so many opponents around them.

In 1872 the government allowed assemblies at Speaker's Corner. Among the speakers even were some famous people like Karl Marx and George Orwell.

I was looking for people who used Speaker's Corner in this tradition and therefore passed the religious extremist.

A black guy from Cuba argued for "live and let live" and quoted Michael Jackson:
If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself And Then Make A Change
The only aspect I totally disagree with the speaker was when he said that it's a pitty no one in Germany could call his child Hitler. In his opinion this man proofed to have greatness when leading Germany out of the recession. He spoke about a documentation that is going to be made on Speaker's Corner and gave us the URL of the film company.

Another man discussed heavily with some (quite dull) people surrounding him which isn't much fun when you're among the listeners. The most discussed topic was how gay people are treated in Africa. When he said that you should do whatever you like with your girlfriend or boyfriend whereever you are, a man from Nigeria turned up and acclaimed that gay men don't get into any problems in his home country. However, this man left and the speaker provoced another controversial discussion when he said that he likes Jews as they are so very clever, often the best business men and just handsome.

The speaker I liked most was a guy who spoke on capitalism and Marxism. In fact, he himself turned out to be a member of the Labour Party who's aim is to change the party from within.

He spoke so elaborately and knew so many interesting statistics and examples from all over the world that it was a delight to listen to him. He was the only one who attracted interested and presumably academic listeners. Among his examples were the suicides of employees in Chinese factories, the attitude towards homeless people in London and people in Spanish Cadiz searching for food in dustbins wearing motorcycle helmets with black visors as they are so embarred of themselves. I learned, eg, that 47 percent of England is owned by just 800 families. In his speech he even thanked the Queen for being allowed to speak on her grounds as Speaker's Corner is part of Queen's owned Hyde Park."All Jews are handsome"