Cancel Culture
Symptoms of mistrust
Academic free speech discourse points towards deeper decay
Breaking taboos with clay
Jo Bartosch interviews ceramicist Claudia Clare, whose uncompromising work has upset the censorious art world
Taking Stock
“Freedom of speech is alive and well at Oxford” — but for how much longer?
Cancelling the soul
A culture of censoriousness is stifling our civic life
The anatomy of cancellation
How speech ends up being suppressed
Inga Thompson and the cost of saying no
How a celebrated cyclist was attacked for defending women’s sports
Censorious sadism
We are never far away from abuse and ostracism
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Problem picture
The artist Balthus simply refuses to be cancelled
Sense and sensitivity
Some readers need thicker skins
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
