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Cancel Culture
Free speech and the importance of vigilance
We must never stop being vigilant against those who seek to destroy the fundamental right to say what we think……
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Television
Too woke to be Fast in 2020s Britain?
Comedy is finding itself increasingly under attack in this age of wokeness… It’s a show that was a big part…
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Gender
Thought-crime did not end with Orwell
Orwell, trans activists and the inexorable power of the thought-terminating cliché… “FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD was inscribed on…
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The comfort of cults
It’s fine to belong but to demonise those who don’t is where cults go wrong… Cults have a bad name.…
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Cancel culture and comedy don’t mix
Let’s have the free speech first and worry about the consequences later… Comedians are a funny bunch. They’re also, as…
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Laura Marcus: Why I “cancelled” myself
Have I betrayed fellow women by cancelling myself? When Labour MP Rosie Duffield issued an apology for saying “only women…
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Top comedians slam cancel culture
Ricky Gervais and John Cleese say cancel culture takes the fun out of life… Top comedians Ricky Gervais and John…
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Arts
Perhaps it’s time to re-assess statues
Still life on our streets… On July 30 a London statue made headline news. Rather than another vandalised monument to…
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Rushdie: Left-wing cancel culture is a threat to freedom of speech
In an interview with Times Radio, Salman Rushdie has warned that Left-wing cancel culture is a threat to freedom of…
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Is Twitter’s cancel culture healthy?
Writing for USA Today recently, Dalvin Brown asks whether Twitter’s cancel culture is a force for good or a digital…
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