Cancel Culture
Can Cambridge cope with Jordan Peterson?
His visit tests the self-appointed judiciary of acceptable ideas
The war on normativity
Chris Pratt is a man caught in the middle of a growing rift between two Americas
Cancelling Terry Gilliam (again)
Gilliam is now 80, and seems as cheerily intent on causing trouble and controversy as ever
The quiet cancellations
In the fearful climate of cancel culture, women and girls lose out — again
Sally Rooney and cultural boycotts
Rooney has now run into greater controversy than simple literary taste
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
Self-made demoniacs
Beware of pointing the finger, even at the devil
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
The gift and curse of language
It separates us from the animals – and the angels
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed