I never thought I would find myself living in Dickensian England.
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That's how far democracy has gone down the drain, that even criticising cancel culture is 'brave'.
Careful with that pitchfork, Eugene. Free speech is a civil liberty, not right wing.
Take it to a witch-burning.
Perhaps he can get a job at the Daily Mail.
The Guardian was started by Unitarians who are supposed to be open to ideas, but now it fully embraces cancel culture and censorship, like any orthodoxy.
Let's make farting in public a crime.
Cancel culture is fine as long as the majority is right. But gay people were once a victim of cancel culture.
This is old news.
But what browser should I use? Do I have to check the politics of every employee or volunteer?
How do you make steel for wind turbines without fossil fuels? How do you build a nuclear power station without fossil fuels? How do you replace all the petrol and diesel cars in the country with electric ones, without using fossil fuels? Where is all the electricity going to come from? It's complicated.
First principle: "To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment."
The original purpose of the police was crime prevention. They should be out on the beat, not sitting in the office staring at screens. Having police wandering around deters crime.
Because the government has to pay her legal fees perhaps.