Activist outrage as fall of Rhodes statue blocked
The decision to halt the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford has been condemned as ‘glorifying genocide and imperialism’.
Freedom Of Speech
The price of woke corporate politics
A new advertising campaign targets Nike, Coca-Cola and American Airlines.
Fighting white privilege from the Chairman’s Lounge
Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has taken her battle against oppression and colonisation to the mean seats of Qantas; Plus, Disney goes Snow Woke.
Cancel mob thirsts for stolen status, not social justice
Leaders should also be aware that those behind such crusades are small in number, and most people are much more moderate than hysterical front-line activists.
UK unis forced to protect freedom of speech
Student unions will be fined if they ‘cancel’ speakers or gag academics under new legislation outlined by the Queen.
Facebook’s Trump ban is a threat to free speech
With its censorship of the former president, the social media giant is behaving increasingly like a national government.
Cancel culture turns its guns on Napoleon
President Emmanuel Macron is under pressure over how to honour the ‘sexist, racist’ figure in the Black Lives Matter era.
Dawkins loses award over ‘demeaning’ tweets
Evolutionary biologist stripped of ‘Humanist of the Year’ over remarks on transgender rights that ‘demean marginalised groups’.
Student banned for saying ‘Rule Britannia’
A university student in the UK has been kicked out for using the ‘potentially discriminatory or racist’ expression in a debate.
‘Don’t call predators pedophiles’
Tasmania’s ABC reporters have been told to ‘avoid’ referring to child sex abusers as pedophiles, to avoid marginalising them.
US cancel culture is becoming absurd
If you’re triggered by a benign act of Abraham Lincoln from almost 200 years ago, or a line from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem causes ‘hurt’, perhaps the problem is you.
‘Decolonising’ canon beyond the pale
The activists demanding the erasure of the geniuses of our civilisation on campus just want to recolonise the curriculum with politically correct works.
COVID-19 ‘slowly killing democracy’
The pandemic triggered a ‘huge rollback of freedoms’, giving 2020 the lowest score in an annual democracy index compiled for the past 15 years.
Cancel culture a ‘medieval mob’
Actor Rowan Atkinson condemns social media’s push to silence public debate after recent run-in with woke warriors.
Worried about teen gender ‘craze’? You haven’t got a prayer
A Victorian bill that would make praying a criminal offence in some circumstances betrays a government that has lost every trace of modesty.
When do displays of piety go too far?
There seems to be too many supposedly solemn moments when we’re expected to passively accept, or even actively participate in, expressions of virtue that we don’t share.
The woke are gaslighting us into surrender
Fear of being denounced as sexist, racist, Islamophobic or transphobic is destroying freedoms we’ve worked hard for.
Cricketers go where the Wallabies won’t
While momentum has gone out of BLM protests, our women cricketers are unafraid of provoking reaction.
Uni gag on free speech hits new low
When a dean of law’s paper on trans legislation is rejected because students don’t like his views, we have a serious problem.
Islamism converges with cancel culture
Samuel Paty’s jihadist murderer targeted the victim based on social media outrage and lies.
Empire book cancelled after petition
US professor’s book is ‘cancelled’ amid allegations the avowed ‘pro-colonial’ author endorsed ‘a white nationalist perspective’.
Our unis would fail any basic ethics test
Much of the conduct at our unis fails community standards. Values have been abandoned in the shameless pursuit of wealth.
Fitz, check yourself before Folau rant
You would have great difficulty trying to reconcile your past views with Folau’s non-participation in the latest feel-good fad.
Eddie, Nick and Izzy walk into a bar …
The trio stick to their guns despite shooting themselves in both feet. Here they go again. Bang, bang.
Ridd decision abandons point of unis
The ‘vibe of the thing’ won’t do as we test our tertiary sector’s intolerance of freedom.
Cancel culture at heart of Ridd fight
In its judgment for James Cook Uni, the Federal Court seemed to suggest free speech on campus is past its use-by date.
Ridd goes to High Court
Supporters of professor sacked for criticising uni over climate change science aim to raise $630,000 to bankroll appeal.
Uni wins appeal over $1.2m Ridd judgment
In a ‘devastating blow’ to free speech, former James Cook University professor Peter Ridd’s unlawful dismissal judgment has been set aside.
Culture row more than a matter of opinion
A free speech row intensifies with the exit of a NYT columnist who accuses the paper of surrendering to Twitter’s agenda.
‘I had to speak out over Orwellian cancel culture’
Steven Pinker, the bestselling author, claims he is the target of an ‘Orwellian’ attack on his reputation that wants to cancel him.
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