"Both sides of the culture wars have been on the wrong end of draconian measures, including the ban on Palestine Action"
"I suspect that Sally Rooney and JD Vance would be surprised to find themselves on the same side. But crises make strange bedfellows."
"The UK, as the US vice-president rightly said in his speech at the Munich security conference last February, is in the throes of a crisis of free speech - and Rooney is in the eye of that storm."
"In fairness to Vance, it is he and his ilk on the right who were the first to identify it. Since even before the UK adopted the tiresome "anti-woke" agenda wholesale from the US, British conservatives have been decrying a rise in censoriousness that they identified with the left - cancel culture, snowflakes, thought police, groupthink, liberal media bias, left-leaning content moderation."
Both sides of the culture wars have faced draconian measures, including bans such as the one imposed on Palestine Action. Unexpected allies like Sally Rooney and JD Vance find themselves aligned amid a broader clash over expression. The UK is experiencing a pronounced crisis of free speech, noted at international fora. Conservative voices were among the earliest to warn of rising censoriousness linked to left-wing practices. Key complaints include cancel culture, accusations of snowflake behaviour, thought policing, groupthink, perceived liberal media bias, and left-leaning approaches to content moderation.
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