cancel culture
Kazuo Ishiguro is right about cancel culture
When the Kuwaiti authorities banned nearly 1,000 books from the Kuwait International Literature festival including Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the…
Is it time to cancel Sophocles?
Gstaad The sun has returned, the snow is so-so, and exercise has replaced everything, including romance. What a way to…
The lost magic of Palm Beach
Gstaad Good old Helvetia. I’m quitting her for the rainy but pleasant land of England. The cows are beginning to…
How the green-ink brigade is destroying the arts
I’m often asked why Channel 4 recently banned an episode of my show The IT Crowd because of ‘transphobia’. I…
'We're all members of the Stasi now': Irvine Welsh interviewed
The arts are everywhere under attack from those who claim offence, writes Nina Power. Irvine Welsh steps into the fray with a documentary on the new censorship
My run-in with the New York Times
It’s never a good sign when you’re watching a scene of street terror in yet another gut-churning YouTube video and…
The most memorable RNC speakers are not the stars
Let’s be real, the warm-up acts are never the draw. For every Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees (true story)…
Letters: Will office workers ever want to return?
The future of offices Sir: I agree with much of Gerard Lyons’s article about the future of the capital (‘London…
Cancelling Kindergarten Cop is a step too far
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s late-Eighties to early-Nineties comedies have not gone down in history as great triumphs. Films like Junior and Twins…
Kanye West and the uncancellables
For better or worse, the rapper, producer and sneaker salesman Kanye West is almost certainly not running for president, as…
Here’s some left-wing stuff we can cancel, too
‘What do we burn apart from witches?’ ‘More witches!’ A pitchfork-and-iPhone-wielding diversity mob is running amok in major metropolitan areas…
Conservatives talk about cancel culture too much
If you are on the right I suspect you have heard leftists saying something like this: ‘Thousands of people are…
America has turned into a bad joke
Gstaad Rumours about the virus are flying around this village. First there was talk of a hotel being temporarily…
How to fight back against ‘cancel culture’
‘Cancel culture’ is a horrible term because outside of a dictatorship nobody can actually be ‘canceled’ or otherwise ‘disappeared’. All…
Why aren’t leftists happy Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie?
As a twenty-something man who spends excessive amounts of time on the internet I have of course watched countless hours…
A hostile media helps Donald Trump
The news media of the late 1700s and early 1800s consisted almost entirely of partisan political operations. Ron Chernow, the biographer…
Barack Obama helped create cancel culture. Now he condemns it
Like many others, I was very struck by recent footage of Barack Obama criticizing cancel culture. Less than three years…
How did Richard Herring become the comedy podcast king?
What does it mean to be a successful comic? Richard Herring isn’t sure. He’s been a ‘professional funnyman’ for nearly…
