PARIS (AP) – Pressure is mounting on a French government minister to quit over comments allegedly stigmatizing homosexuality and LGBTQ people, in the latest challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government claims to have “turned the tide” against cancel culture even as a player on England’s national cricket team has been suspended for tweets sent as a teenager.
The BBC has added trigger warnings to the American sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and British comedy classic Blackadder, claiming that they contain “discriminatory jokes” which may cause “offence”.
A publisher has cancelled a book by Britain’s sparkiest polemicist on the evils of woke because she offended a semi-celebrity Communist with a supposedly “Islamophobic” tweet. Was there ever a story that more perfectly captured the woke insanity of 2020?
Black Lives Matter supporters chanting “abolish the police” have torn down a statue of Sir John A MacDonald, the Scotsman who became Canada’s first prime minister, in Montreal.
Sixteen films including Aliens, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Flash Gordon, The Jungle Book, and Lawrence of Arabia have been given trigger warnings for their “outdated attitudes” by Comcast-owned Sky in the UK as a Black Lives Matter inspired Cultural Revolution sweeps the country
Comcast-owned Sky has added trigger warnings to Disney’s Aladdin — both the 1992 original and the 2019 remake — warning its “outdated attitudes” may “cause offence today”.
Douglas Murray has criticised the BBC for inviting him onto a programme to discuss woke culture, only for the presenter to ambush him with offence archaeology in order to derail Mr Murray’s argument and effectively ‘cancel’ him live on air.
“Islam inherently inhibits the path to progress and freedom”. Not my words: Boris Johnson’s, from an article he wrote in 2007.
Cambridge University, formerly a distinguished seat of learning, is funding two grievance archaeologists to go through its archives in order to discover how guilty it needs to feel about slavery — and how much it owes in compensation.
Liberals are the new Maoists. If in doubt, do listen to my podcast this week with Toby Young. In it Young recounts the truly shocking story of how a vengeful mob of impeccably liberal “progressive” types sought completely to destroy his life and career.
