Is It Really Possible to Be “Colonised” by Noel Edmonds?
Is it really possible to be "colonised" by Noel Edmonds? It is according to his new neighbours in New Zealand, where the TV presenter's un-PC humour is upsetting the local pearl-clutchers.
Is it really possible to be "colonised" by Noel Edmonds? It is according to his new neighbours in New Zealand, where the TV presenter's un-PC humour is upsetting the local pearl-clutchers.
Trans rights activists are hellbent on cancelling heretics like Graham Linehan but happy to ignore jokes about raping and killing women by 'allies' like Frankie Boyle, says Heather Brunskell-Evans.
Freddie Attenborough, the comms officer of the Free Speech Union, reflects on the absurdity of the Cambridge Footlights advertising for 'sensitivity readers'. Is satire finally dead?
Cancel culture is definitely real, as we have seen with the recent cancellation of comedian Alfie Brown. Finding out that the BBC is not renewing your show for a seventh series, however, probably doesn't count.
Cancel culture shows no signs of abating, with an online mob getting comedian Alfie Brown's gigs cancelled, and encouraging Twitter users to "bully him more".
Yesterday's largely favourable profile of Graham Linehan in the Times could be another sign that the tide is turning on the trans debate, though it also reveals we still have a long way to go to defeat cancel culture.
Comedian Samantha Pressdee has written a scathing piece about self-censorship, groupthink, and cancel culture in the comedy world. Naturally, her show has now been cancelled.
“This week I was the victim of two non-crime hate incidents at the hands of the comedy establishment,” writes Nick Dixon. Why do the custodians of mainstream comedy hate GB News so much?
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are Ron DeSantis pushing ahead of Donald Trump, Dave Chappelle getting cancelled again and the hypocrisy of England's football virtue signallers.
Popular comic strip Dilbert has been cancelled by 77 newspapers after its creator Scott Adams started poking fun at workplace wokery in plotlines. Going woke is no joke, it seems.
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