A modest proposal for the regulation of comedy
A Criminal Levity Act would place the dangerous realm of humour safely within the scope of anti-terrorism laws.
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The biggest threat to freedom in the West is liberalism itself
Progressives everywhere are deploying the law to attack free speech. It is a bid for unchecked power that is galvanising…
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Why I was banned from Germany
In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows.
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The West’s useful idiots
The solipsism and self-censorship of the campus intelligentsia has spread throughout society. But demand for instruction in progressive doublespeak is…
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Cancel culture comes to GB News
Lawrence Fox and Dan Wooton have nowhere left to hide.
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Gary Lineker played into the hands of the BBC’s right-wing enemies
Those who want to defund a vital national institution have emerged stronger from this saga.
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From Roald Dahl to Ian Fleming, censorship is good for the book trade
Releasing bowdlerised books into a predictable storm of ridicule and then making the “classic texts” available is clever business.
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Why you can’t cancel Jeremy Clarkson
The presenter embodies a deathless English conservatism.
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The woke brigade isn’t cancelling Christmas
Complaints about Christmas inclusivity are designed to stoke grievance and division.
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How it feels to be cancelled by Calvin Robinson and the free speech brigade
Aren’t the right supposed to be against intimidating people into silence?
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What JK Rowling and John Cleese get wrong about cancel culture
A belief in accountability does not involve condoning threats or violence – and freedom of expression does not mean freedom…
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It’s funny how all of Jerry Sadowitz’s defenders are white men
Racial slurs and a man exposing his penis don’t hit in quite the same way for them.
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It’s crass to blame cancel culture for what happened to Salman Rushdie
Having a bounty placed on your head by an ayatollah isn’t the same as being mocked on Twitter.
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From the NS archive: Labelled
15 March 1985: To be a writer and to be black in Britain is to be in a corner.
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No, Philip Larkin is not being “cancelled” by schools
The culture war against teachers and academics is manufactured by right-wing newspapers and rent-a-quote reactionaries.
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Men who bullied Cineworld over The Lady of Heaven don’t speak for British Muslims like me
A movie about angry, shouty men has been cancelled by angry, shouty men.
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The Washington Post would throw staff under the bus to preserve its brand
Dave Weigel’s suspension is a statement about company culture, not cancel culture.
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There’s a problem with university culture – but it isn’t the students
Do the grown-ups decrying today’s students really believe they never did anything when they were young that would have caused…
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The right decries cancel culture, but still it tries to cancel me
By all means champion free speech, but please, be consistent.
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