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kiwiqpr said:
In defence of Julie Burchill
Her book on cancel culture has been cancelled. You couldn’t make this up.



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Cancel culture doesn’t exist, they say. In which case maybe someone could explain why Julie Burchill’s book on cancel culture has just been cancelled.

Burchill, Fleet St legend and contributor to spiked, was writing a book called Welcome to the Woke Trials. It promised to be a typically insightful and acerbic dissection of the hysteria and intolerance of wokeness. But it is no more. The yellow-bellied folk at Hachette Books have pulled the plug after Burchill got into a Twitter spat with Ash Sarkar.

The Twitter beef, like all Twitter beefs, is barely worth recounting. Apparently some Corbynistas, always on the hunt for someone they can publicly denounce in the neo-Stalinist fashion, discovered that Rod Liddle wrote a piece for the Spectator eight years ago in which he said he could never have been a schoolteacher because he would probably have tried to shag some of the teenagers. A joke? Disgusting. He was duly denounced as a ***** by the humourless literalists who clog up what passes for ‘the left’ in 21st-century Britain.

Burchill waded in. She took to task one of Rod’s Twitch-hunters – the Queen of Cancellations, Ms Sarkar – and asked her about Muhammad’s very young wife Aisha. She suggested it was hypocritical of Sarkar to go mental over Liddle’s mick-take aside about screwing teens given she follows a religion whose prophet is thought to have had a fairly iffy marriage.

Cue woke derangement. This is racist, they cried. Isn’t everything? One can of course question the wisdom of bringing Islam into a discussion about Rod Liddle and teenagers. I’d go further and question the wisdom of even being on social media. Seriously, leave it to the finger-pointers and witch-dunkers of the hyper-woke bourgeois left. Life’s too short. Go to a pub before they close again.


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And yet the reaction to Burchill’s cutting tweets is unquestionably mad. First she was hounded off Twitter. Some genuine scumbags made fun of the fact that her son committed suicide (there’s nowt so vile as the ‘kinder, gentler politics’ crew). And then Hachette ditched the book. All over a couple of tweets that mainly just took the piss out of Islam. This is nuts.

If anyone ever again tries to say cancel culture doesn’t exist, remind them of this: a book on cancel culture was cancelled because the author made fun of Islam. This orgy of censorious fury ironically proves the point of Burchill’s book – that the unwoke are being tried and found guilty and cast out of polite society. That it can happen to one of Britain’s best and best-known journalists, at the hands of a mob of middle-class mummy’s boys and girls whose achievements wouldn’t cover a Rizla sheet, is just depressing.

I have no doubt Burchill’s book will find a publisher. Indeed, she told me in an email today that she very much plans that it will. But that shouldn’t distract us from the ominous nature of the cult of cancellation and the way it seeks to destroy anyone who dares to question woke orthodoxies or take the piss out of a certain religion. Woke trials, indeed.
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It got ‘cancelled’ because the publisher didn’t want to be associated with her horrific racism. She’s free to publish the thing herself.
 
I think what is crystal clear is that Drakeford and Sturgeon will use every opportunity to undermine Boris for whatever reason to score cheap political shots, they would have known what would be announced today and timed their 'interventions' for maximum effect.

Once again the ineptitude of the whole Christmas 'plan' is this government in a nutshell, instead of decisive leadership we have blandishments that are the perfect excuse for a free for all under the guise of confusion...
 
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Our trade deal with Mexico means we have now secured agreements with 58 countries.

It's our 7th deal with a member of [HASHTAG]#CPTPP[/HASHTAG] - an agreement of 11 Pacific nations covering almost £9 trillion of trade

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I look forward to the UK applying early next year to join [HASHTAG]#CPTPP[/HASHTAG]


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Our trade deal with Mexico means we have now secured agreements with 58 countries.

It's our 7th deal with a member of [HASHTAG]#CPTPP[/HASHTAG] - an agreement of 11 Pacific nations covering almost £9 trillion of trade

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I look forward to the UK applying early next year to join [HASHTAG]#CPTPP[/HASHTAG]


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Brilliant.
Something to be proud of, unless of course you dislike everything about your own Country.
 
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rangercol said:
Brilliant.
Something to be proud of, unless of course you dislike everything about your own Country.
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You don’t have to dislike everything about the country to recognise we’re copy and pasting existing deals to sell as a success to the simple folk who call themselves patriots for waving a flag and fetishising wars they didn’t fight in.
 
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Erm exactly who have implemented the rules? And Tommeh is ranting at a brown fella <laugh>
 
West WindsR said:
You don’t have to dislike everything about the country to recognise we’re copy and pasting existing deals to sell as a success to the simple folk who call themselves patriots for waving a flag and fetishising wars they didn’t fight in.
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Except you do dislike everything about our country.
There has been excellent progress made on international trade deals and it's only utter ****s, who do nothing but run down the country, who'll never recognise that fact.
 
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rangercol said:
Except you do dislike everything about our country.
There has been excellent progress made on international trade deals and it's only utter ****s, who do nothing but run down the country, who'll never recognise that fact.
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I like lots of things about the country. Parts of it are beautiful. Some incredible people happen to have been born here.

Keep waving your flag and marching around your garden if that’s what patriotism is to you but I don’t think it’s accurate for anyone cheering on this government. Nationalism would be closer.
 
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