| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | Steven Rose | |
| Date/Time: | 14/11/25 21:25:00 |
| Apparently, Jonathan, Nigel Biggar makes exactly this point about East Africa in his book, ‘Colonialism’. He was commissioned to write the book by Bloomsbury . The manuscript was initially welcomed by his editor, who predicted that the book would sell 20 000 copies. But Bloomsbury decided not to publish, ostensibly because ‘public feeling on the subject does not currently support the publication of the book’, but in reality because junior staff found Biggar’s arguments offensive. This is similar to the way in which junior staff at the BBC, according to Mark Urban, the BBC’s former diplomatic editor, used to censor material critical of the transgender lobby. Luckily Harper Collins agreed two years later to publish Biggar’s book. However last February a Vancouver theological college, where Biggar himself had studied, cancelled his invitation to speak at the college after alumni accused him on social media of being a ‘mass graves denier’. Apparently Biggar had questioned the existence of mass graves of First Nation children killed at residential schools in Canada. More recently a high school in Dublin cancelled an invitation to Biggar at twelve hours notice. He was due to speak on ‘free speech’. No explanation was given. Biggar has surmised that the governing body of the school objected, not to his views on colonialism, but to what they imagined his views to be. So it seems that cancel culture is alive and well, not just at the BBC. |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| Irony alert! | 09/11/25 09:17:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Irony alert! | 09/11/25 10:25:00 | Robert Wheeler |
| Re:Re:Irony alert! | 09/11/25 12:27:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Irony alert! | 09/11/25 12:54:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Irony alert! | 09/11/25 12:14:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Reply | 09/11/25 12:26:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Irony upon irony | 09/11/25 12:46:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Irony upon irony | 09/11/25 12:59:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Reply | 09/11/25 16:53:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Reply | 09/11/25 15:34:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Reply | 09/11/25 18:13:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Reply | 09/11/25 19:23:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Reply | 09/11/25 18:24:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Reply | 09/11/25 19:07:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 09/11/25 19:22:00 | Robert Wheeler |
| Re:Re:Reply | 09/11/25 21:43:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 09/11/25 22:33:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 10/11/25 00:02:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 10/11/25 12:37:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Reply | 10/11/25 00:22:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 11:47:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 10/11/25 12:19:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 12:28:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 10/11/25 13:31:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 09:13:00 | Lucille Grant |
| Re:Re:Reply | 10/11/25 09:37:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 10/11/25 10:06:00 | Andy Pike |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 10/11/25 10:17:00 | Robert Wheeler |
| Reply | 10/11/25 10:52:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 11:36:00 | Andy Pike |
| Reply | 10/11/25 12:22:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re: Brexit | 10/11/25 12:50:00 | Lucille Grant |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 13:06:00 | Steven Rose |
| Reply | 10/11/25 14:12:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 14:16:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 15:13:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Reply | 11/11/25 20:39:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 11:50:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 19:12:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Reply | 10/11/25 14:34:00 | Andy Pike |
| Re:Re:Reply | 10/11/25 15:54:00 | Lucille Grant |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/11/25 21:47:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 12/11/25 20:40:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/11/25 22:30:00 | Andy Pike |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 12/11/25 23:27:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 13/11/25 22:52:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 02:41:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 12:20:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 12:30:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 12:58:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 13:57:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 14/11/25 12:38:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 19:30:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 12:17:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 16:35:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 19:52:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 10:47:00 | Richard Carter |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 12:05:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 19:40:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 21:25:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 22:07:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 14/11/25 22:10:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 11:53:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 13:08:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 13:44:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 11:44:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 12:22:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 13:00:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 11:31:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 15/11/25 13:19:00 | Steven Rose |
| Reply | 15/11/25 13:53:00 | Michael Ixer |