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.
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.
Politics Professor James Alexander salutes Giorgio Agamben. Written off by his former disciples on the left as an "anti-vaccine conspiracy nutcase", he is one of the few academic philosophers to truly 'get' the pandemic.
The third pilot episode of the Weekly Sceptic is now out. Host Nick Dixon interviews comedian Leo Kearse and they discuss Frankie Boyle being too woke to cancel, how to save comedy and much more.
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.
