Cancel Culture
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
Etta Parsloe
Twitter vigilante
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
