Tag: Cancel Culture

Is the tide finally turning? In the past week some of the BBC's most woke, finger-wagging scolds – Gary Lineker, Frankie Boyle, Dara Ó'Briain – have been targeted for cancellation or literally cancelled.

The University of Edinburgh's excruciatingly woke decision to cancel one of Scotland's greatest Enlightenment philosophers, David Hume, has led to a drop in donations to the university of £2 million.

The unsubstantiated grudges, decades-old grievances, personal animosity, professional resentment and calculated attacks in the report on UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture bode ill for the future of universities.

Cancel culture has “benefits” and white people "have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism”, academics at almost 100 UK universities have been told as part of an anti-racism course.

The legal scholar Ilya Shapiro was subjected to a four month investigation for a tweet he sent *before* his appointment began. This marks the second time in one year that Georgetown Law has caved to the mob.

It's 40 years since the Falklands War, when Britain repelled an invasion by Argentina and reasserted its claim on the islands. Britain's claim remains just, and welcomed by islanders as the guarantee of their liberty.

The past two years have seen a 'New Normal' emerge as a set of views about discrimination, prejudice, culture and guilt under which white, heterosexual men began to be obliged to feel guilty for being themselves.

The latest satellite temperature data show no global warming now for seven years and three months. But why has Google demonetised the climate scientist who compiles this data, alleging 'misinformation'?

Wrinkly rocker Neil Young told Spotify to choose between him and Joe Rogan over alleged Covid misinformation – and the streaming service has chosen Rogan, saying it has a responsibility to balance safety and freedom.

Allison Pearson lists the most lunatic lockdown measures as she recalls being pilloried for being a lockdown sceptic, but increasingly her opponents are admitting she was right.