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JK Rowling, 1984, and cancel culture

Thursday 4 March 2021Thursday 9 July 2020 by admin

Vance Crowe hosts Claire on his podcast to discuss the importance of debating, George Orwell’s masterpiece 1984, JK Rowling’s run-in with cancel culture, and why feminists have trouble connecting with current-day movements.

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Historically, racial thinking treated people as inferior on the basis of skin colour and ancestry. It was not a metaphor. It was a system of ranking human beings as more or less fully human, and it had a material reality: slavery,

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Two deeply symbolic & disturbing events over the last 24 hours:

1. The French & British shepherd 100+ illegal migrants into Britain. The authorities' only action is to impose a WW2 'papers please' dispersal order on an entire town to stop protest.

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Whatever the problem, too often politics favours technical fixes or harping back to old models – nationalisation, constitutional tinkering, electoral reform, institutional re-engineering and endless new laws, many aimed at restricting

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