News Round-Up
27 October 2024
by Will Jones
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Clothing that promotes "cultural appropriation" has been banned by a leading music festival, the Wireless Festival. Down with cultural cross-pollination! But will it include a ban on non-Westerners donning Western clothes?
Dulwich Prep London is ditching Native American tribe names for mythical creatures in its house system over concerns of "cultural appropriation".
Even the BBC's Monty Don complained that the surprise winner at this year's Chelsea Flower Show was a box-ticking exercise. Gardening has been colonised by wokesters who see racism everywhere, says Steven Tucker.
The corrosive, killjoy woke ideology is killing art and literature by imposing intolerable rules like a ban on 'cultural appropriation', says Lionel Shriver. "My response to rules I don’t accept is to break them."
There's a terrific interview with lockdown sceptic hero Lionel Shriver in the latest issue of the Critic in which she rails against the attempts by the authoritarian left to police novelists and literature.
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