Moo wrote:

I hate fkg cancel culture!

RRSTDV8 wrote:

We were lucky to grow up in simpler times.

HWN wrote:

Lots of people running round Hyde Park with massive knives on Tuesday. One stabbed.

Time to give everyone a gun - that'd deter 'em. What a -hole London is...

DG wrote:

Says the man who has had a nanny for 50 years

And the man that thinks fish are now happy.

He's a parody of himself.

HWN wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8_rs6tOSs

I need to open another bottle. I oddly find myself in agreement with JRM

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RRSTDV8 wrote:

We were lucky to grow up in simpler times.

FSU wrote:

The hounding of cricketer Ollie Robinson for nine year-old tweets has shown once again the need to pushback against the Witch-Finder Generals. That teenagers make off-colour jokes should surprise nobody, but in modern Britain it’s enough to destroy careers. Toby wrote about this for the Mail earlier this week. We’re pleased to see Oliver Dowden, the Culture Secretary, and the Prime Minister defending Robinson and telling the England and Wales Cricket Board to “think again” over the decision to suspend him and place him under investigation – even though Robinson has already apologised. Matthew Syed in the Times writes that cancel culture “is like a virus that people catch, finding hitherto undiscovered wells of pleasure in the bringing down of people for past sins, stretching back into youthful adolescence. The idea of rehabilitation, still less forgiveness, is ruled out of court.”

Further players have been dragged into the storm since the offence archaeologists sifted through Robinson’s old tweets and even Wisden, the cricketing almanac, has joined in, prompting harsh criticism from fans. The sleuths at Wisden “discovered” one post made by a player when he was just 15. FSU director Douglas Murray says in the Sun that this whole affair demonstrates the “stupid, unforgiving and vengeful way in which we now treat people”. You can read Rod Liddle’s caustic take on the “controversy” here.

Meanwhile, the Greens have dropped their Batley and Spen by-election candidate – the rugby league international player Ross Peltier – for posts he made as a teenager. As long as this is considered an acceptable tactic for bringing people down we recommend all our members install Tweet Delete, an app that deletes everything you’ve ever said on Twitter that’s more than a week old. It’s a lot cheaper than hiring a “social media scrubber”.

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(For anyone thinking of hiring a scrubber, my sister-in-law can be reached on 01243 xxxxxx (full number scrawled into all local bus-stops)).

This just made me laugh so much my wife is questioning my sanity again

astonbuilder wrote:

RRSTDV8 wrote:

We were lucky to grow up in simpler times.

I'm pretty sure most of us wouldn't [...]

RRSTDV8 wrote:

The same with those who would prevent "unsuitable" people from talking at the Oxford Union. You don't, in my opinion, show how someone is wrong by simply banning them from talking. Much better to debate with them and demonstrate why their position is wrong/untenable/whatever. Nothing like publicly taking apart someone's position in a logical and thoughtful way to stop the propagation of that position. If you want to stop the spread of an extremist view, take it apart in debate and show why it's misconceived. Just banning the speaker effectively makes them a political martyr in the eyes of their followers.

It happened a few years ago when Nick Griffin of the BNP appeared on Question Time. The audience (and panel) howled him down any time he ways speaking, denying him the opportunity to expose his racist and offensive views for all to hear. It would have been far better to let him speak and reveal himself to be the that he truly is.