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Rod Liddle

The BBC needs to be rescued from its own groupthink

It’s so depressingly predictable who gets invited to be a senior panjandrum of the quangocracy

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

I see that law students at Oxford University were told that if they found the contents of a lecture on rape and sexual assault ‘distressing’, they would be permitted to absent themselves. This is an interesting approach for future lawyers and barristers. Perhaps, further down the line, they will excuse themselves in court when the evidence is a bit gamey and go to a safe space for a good cry.

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